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sculpture. Proiiotum scarcely longer than wide, with base broadly 

 rounded but angles discernible, sides arcuately but distinctly converg- 

 ing in front; with two discal series of four punctures, the posterior 

 more distant, and with about five lateral punctures ; ground sculpture 

 as on head. Elytra with surface irregular and punctures directed 

 posteriorly, rather dense, and often appearing submuricate; without 

 ground sculpture. A'bdo7nen with very fine and not very dense punc- 

 tures ; iridescent but without distinct ground sculpture. Male^ eighth 

 sternite w^ith an emargination about three times as wide as deep but 

 preceded on the segment by a triangular smooth area about as deep as 

 wide. Female, eighth sternite truncate. Length, 7 to 8 mm. 



Type locality. — England. Of algincus, Algeria ; of fum.osus, Mex- 

 ico; of fuscieornis, Cape of Good Hope; of laetahilis, "Port Lincoln,, 

 South Australia; Hobart, Tasmania"; of perplexus, Santiago, Chile; 

 of promtus, Pennsylvania ; of scyhalarius, Berlin ; of asemiis, "India 

 boreali"; of feralis, Colombia; of pedestris, Ceylon; of piceicorniSy 

 not recorded ; of linkei, Germany ; of rubromactdatus, southern Italy. 



Types. — In British Museum. Of promtus., probably in the Zoo- 

 logische Museum, Berlin ; of feralis., either in the Hope IMuseum. Ox- 

 ford, or the Zoologische Museum, Berlin; of perpleams, probably in 

 either the Musee Koyal d' Histoire Naturelle Belgique, Brussels, or the 

 Museo Nacional, Santiago, Chile ; of pedestris, probably in the British 

 Museum ; of laetabilis, probably in the Australian Museum, Sydney ; of 

 picewornis, in the Museo Entomologicae "Pietro Rossi," Duino; of 

 fuscicornis, "Mus. Reg. Berol." ; of scyhalarius, unknown ; of algirieus, 

 probably in the Zoological Museum, Moscow ; of a^emus, in the Deutsche 

 Entomologische Institut, Berlin-Dahlem ; of fumo.ms, in the Zoological 

 Museum, Leningrad ; of linkei and mhromaculatus, presumably in the 

 collection of Max Bernhauer. 



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



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



Puerto Rico: Lajas (Dozier, in U.S.N.M.). 



St. Kitts: (Blackwelder station 305). 



Antigua: (Blackwelder station 280B). 



Montserrat: (Hubbard, in U.S.N.M.). 



Grenada: (British Museum). 



South America: Colombia (Erichson, 1840, as feralis), Argentina, Chile 



(British Museum). 

 Central America: Mexico (Solsky, 1868, as fumosus). 

 North America: "Everywhere" (Horn, 1884 ; Erichson, 1840). 

 Europe: (Stephens, 1832; Fauvel, 1872; Ganglbauer, 1895; Nordmann, 1836; 



Thomson, 1860; Reitter, 1909; Johansen, 1914). 

 Africa: Madeiras, Canaries, Azores, Capk Verdes, Ascension, Cape of Good 



Hope, Madagascar (Fairraaire, 1849; Wollaston, 1871 ; Fauvel. 1872). 

 Asia and Orient: Siberia, Japan, Cetxxon, Tahiti, Austr^vlia, New Caledonia, 



Tasmania, Honq Kong, Sumatra (Fairmaire, 1849; Fauvel, 1872; Ollitf, 1887; 



Cameron, 1932; British Museum). 



