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was kindly presented to the National Museum by Dr. S. T. Danforth, 

 of Mayagiiez. 



I have no record of its habits. 



9. PINOPHILUS FLAVIPES Erichson 



Pluoiihilus flavipes Ep.ichson, 1840, p. 674. — IMotschulsky, 1857, p. 516.— 

 SHAKP, 18S6, p. 621. — Bernhauer and Schubert, 1912, p. 193. — Leng and 

 MuTCHLEK, 1914, p. 404.— WoLoorr, 1924, p. 78 ; 1936, p. 196. 



Description. — Black, posterior border of abdominal segments rufes- 

 cerit. Head with about five very large punctures on each side 

 between and in front of the eyes, and with numerous rather small 

 punctures interspersed with minute punctulae, the latter more sparse 

 in front; without ground sculpture. Pronotwn with large and 

 moderately dense punctures, the intervals flat and rather densely 

 minutely punctulate; the large punctures also very densely sculp- 

 tured inside; with a narrow irregular impunctate midline. Elytra 

 with strong punctures separated by their diameter or less by strongly 

 convex intervals; without distinct ground sculpture. Abdomen very 

 coarsely but not sparsely punctate, the- punctures either excavated 

 behind or submuricate; with rather indistinct transverse strigiilae. 

 Male^ eighth sternite feebly truncate. Female, eighth sternite with 

 a moderately large rounded lobate expansion. Length, 12 to 16 mm. 



Type locality. — Puerto Rico. 



Types. — Either in the Hope Museum, Oxford, or in the Zoologische 

 Museum, Berlin. 



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



Bahamas: Cat Mand (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N. M.). 



Cuba: Cayanias (Sclnvarz, in U.S.N.M.), Baragua (Stahl and Cliristenson, in 



U.S.N.M. ; Scaramuzza and Stalil, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). I.aguna La 



Canoa (Bierig collection and U.S.N.M.), Soledad (Darlington, in M.C.Z. 



and U.S.N.M.), Central Jaronu (Scaramuzza, in M.C.Z.). 

 Caymans: Grand Cayman (Lewis, in Oxford University collection and U.S.N.M.). 

 Plispaniola: Dominican Republic, Barahona (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and 



U.S.N.M.). 

 Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1840; Sharp, 1886; Bernhauer and Schubert, 1913; Leng 



and Mutchler, 1914; Wolcott, 1924, 1936). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen 10 examples in the United 

 States National Museum, 11 from the ^Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, and 5 from Oxford University. 



Remarli-s. — This si)ecies is somewhat variable but may be recognized 

 by the presence of the three distinct sizes of punctures on the head. 

 The related species lack tlie middle size entirely though having the 

 minute punctulae more variable. 



Most specimens were taken at light, but I luive seen examples 

 labeled "fi'om mud along river." 



