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Philonthxis discoidens Camekon, 1033, p. 42 (misspelling). 



Philonthus gerhardtianus ScHEERrELTz, 1933, p. 1340 (new name for rnfipennis) . 



Description. — Head black, pronotiim nifopiceous to rufous, elytra 

 and abdomen castaneous, sometimes picescent, elytral suture and 

 posterior and lateral margins narrowly testaceous. Head subquad- 

 rate with posterior angles moderately rounded; eyes at about two- 

 thirds their length from base; without distinct impression in front; 

 disk with two punctures forming (with two supraocular) a row of 

 four between the eyes, the supraoculars being placed a trifle more 

 anteriorly, and with a pair of lateral discal punctures just back of the 

 eyes; with minute punctulae and very fine strigulose ground sculpture. 

 Proiiotum as broad as long, scarcely narrowed in front, base com- 

 pletely rounded ; with two discal series of four punctures, with another 

 puncture not in line but not clearly part of the anterior marginal 

 series, and with about five lateral punctures; with ground sculpture 

 as on head. Elytra with moderate punctures of indefinite shape, 

 generally not separated by their diameter; without distinct ground 

 sculpture. Ahdomcn with fine and rather dense submuricate punc- 

 tures; with indistinct transverse strigulose ground sculpture. Male^ 

 eighth sternite with a small triangular or rounded emargination over 

 four times as wide as deep and preceded by a triangular smooth area. 

 Female^ eighth sternite rounded. Length, 5 to G14 iiani. 



Type locality. — (Xot recorded.) Of SKturalis, not recorded; of 

 ruficomis, Pennsylvania; of lepidulus^ England; of testaceus^ Sweden; 

 of conformis^ Paris; of gerhardtianus and rufpennis., Liegnitz. 



Types. — Probably in the Zoologische Museum, Berlin. Of m-ficomis, 

 probably in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. ; 

 of lepidulus., in the British Museum ; of suturalis, possibly in the British 

 Museum; of testaceu~s, in Naturhistorisk Kiksmuseum, Stockholm; of 

 confor-mis^ unknown ; of ruflpennis^ presumably in collection at Hed- 

 wigsschule, Liegnitz. 



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



Cul)a:(Erichson, 1840; Fanvel, 1872; British Museum). 



Jamaica: (Cameron collection), Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377). 



Hispaniola: Haiti, Kenskoff (Blackwelder station 23B). 



Puerto Rico: San Juan (Blackwelder station 43B). 



St. Croix: (Blackwelder station 344). 



St. Kitts: (Blackwelder stations 207, 209, 302, 305). 



Antigua: (Blackwelder stations 275B, 290). 



Montserrat: (Blackwelder station 2G7B). 



Guadeloupe: Grande Terre (Blackwelder station 89). 



Grenada: (British Museum). 



North America: (Fauvel, 1872), Atlantic States to Nevada and Arizona (Flora, 



18S4), Nevada, Aiuzona, Virginia, New York, Texas (Casey collection, in 



U. S. N. M.). 



