372 BULLETIN 182, UNITED STATES N^ATIONAL MUSEUM 



six in the United States National Museum (one labeled cotype and 

 paratype, No. 50874). 

 Records. — The following are the records known to me : 



[Cuba: Marianao (Caraex'on collection, as minuius Sharp.).] 



Jamaica: (Cameron collection), Trinityville (Blackwelder station 428), Troy 



(Blackwelder station 409). 

 Hispaniola: Dominican Republic, SAnchez (Darlington, In M. C. Z.). 

 St. Vincent: (Cameron, 1913). 

 Grenada: (Cameron, 1913; Leng and Mutchler, 1917; Blackwelder station 187K 



/Specimens examin.ed. — I have seen 14 examples in the British 

 Museum, 6 in the collection of Dr. Cameron, 1 from the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, 6 in the United States National Museum, and 5 

 collected by me in 1935-37. 



Remxirks. — The single specimen labeled minuius in the Cameron 

 collection is very likely this species. T was not able to compare it with 

 the type of minufus in the British Museum but find that the descrip- 

 tion of mirmtus is insufficient to separate it from waterhmisei. 



The discontinuous distribution indicated above from the original 

 publication is verified by my own captures. Further collecting will 

 undoubtedly bring many new records. 



My specimens were collected from decaying cocoa pods. 



4. ECHIASTER SHAKPI Cameron 



Echiaster sharpi Cameron, 1913b, p. 337, 338. — Leng and Mutchler, 1917, p. 198.— 

 ScnEETvPELTZ, 1933, p. 1239. 



Description. — Head and pronohmi ferruginous, elytra black, ob- 

 scurely lighter at the shoulders, abdomen black, apex obscurely lighter. 

 Head large, orbicular ; ej'es large, their diameter much greater than the 

 length of the temples; sculpture close, rugose, umbilicate; antennae 

 short, segments 6 to 10 transverse. Proiiotvm narrower than head, dis- 

 tinctly longer than broad, oval-oblong, carinate at center (with a 

 raised central line), anterior angles rounded, posteriorly obtuse; sculp- 

 ture as on head. Elytra distinctl}- longer than broad, and little longer 

 than the pronotum; closely and rugoseiy punctured. Ahdonien nar- 

 rowed at apex; closely punctate and shortly pubescent. Length, 3 

 mm. (From Cameron.) 



Type locality. — Jamaica, Hope River district. 



Types. — Unique type in the collection of Dr. Cameron. 



Records. — The following is the only record known to me : 



Jamaica: (Leng and Mutchler, 1917), Hope River (Cameron, 1913). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the unique type, which I 

 examined briefly in Dr. Cameron's collection. 



Remarks. — The remarks concerning punchition under distinctiLS 

 apply equally to this species. 



I find no record of its habits. 



