384 BULLETIN 18 2, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



10. PINOPHILUS HISPANIOLUS, new species 



Description, — Black or piceoiis. Head with scattered large punc- 

 tures usually in groups, interspersed with small punctures and 

 minute punctulae ; without ground sculpture. Pronotum with rather 

 large and dense punctures usually separated by less than half their 

 diameter, the intervals flat and rather sparsely minutely punctulate ; 

 the large punctures densely sculptured within; without distinctly 

 impunctate midline. Elytra with punctures as large as on pronotma 

 dense and separated by convex rugose intervals; without distinct 

 ground sculpture. Abdomen with punctures rather fine and dense, 

 shallow and excavated behind, sometimes submuricate, always sculp- 

 tured within ; without distinct ground sculpture. Male^ eighth sternite 

 broadly truncate. Female^ stern itcs not modified. Length, 11 to 13 

 mm. 



Type locality. — Dominican Republic, Sanchez. 



Types. — Holotype, male, in Museum of Comparative Zoology; one 

 paratype, female, in the United States National Museum (No. 52541) ; 

 collected in July 1938 by Dr. P. J. Darlington. Another paratype 

 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology from Etang Lachaux in 

 Haiti. 



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



Hispaniola: Haiti, I^tang Lachaux (Darlington, in M.C.Z.) ; Dominican Re- 

 public, Sanchez (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the three types. 



Remarks. — This species may be distinguished from favipes by its 

 dense punctation and by the very different aedeagus of the male. 

 From aguayoi it is distinguished by the aedeagus as well as a slight 

 difference in the shape of the eighth sternite. 



I have received no record of its habits. 



11. PINOPHILUS AGUAYOI Bierig; 



Pinophilus aguayoi Bierig, 1935b, p. 29, pi. 3, fig. 1. 



Description. — Black. Head with a few large punctures be- 

 tween and before the eyes interspersed with small punctures and 

 punctulae; without ground sculpture. Pronotum with very large 

 and rather dense punctures usually separated by half their diameter 

 or less and completely filled with dense ground sculpture; the inter- 

 vals rather densely irregularly punctulate. Elytra with rather coarse 

 punctures separated by their diameter or less by strongly convex 

 intervals, somewhat obscured; without distinct ground sculpture. 

 Abdomen moderately coarsely but not sparsely punctate, some- 

 times submuricately ; with indistinct transverse strigulae. MaU, 

 eighth sternite somewliat produced and narrowly truncate. Female, 

 sternites not modified. Length, 8y2 mm. 



