414 BULLETIN 182, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Remarhfi. — This species is distinguished from longicoimis by the 

 marking of the elytra and the sparse punctures of the abdomen. It 

 also differs in the male characters. 



I find no record of its habits. 



9. PHILONTHUS FLAVOLIMBATUS Erichson 



Philonthus flm^olimbatns Ekichson, 1840, pp. 471, 929. — LeConte, 1866, p. 348. — 

 HOBN, 1884, pp. 190, 191, 192, 247.— Sharp, 1SS5, p. 416.— Cockkrell, 1898, 

 p. 143.— Gbii'Fith, 1900, p. 566.— Fall, 1901, pp. 14, 69.— Knaus, 1905, pp. 349; 

 1906, p. 330.— Fall and Cockeuell, 1907, p. 166.— Leng and Mutchleb, 1914, 

 p. 401. — Bkrnhaueb and Sciium:BT, 1914, p. 338. — Notman, 1920, p. 706. — Tot- 

 tenham, 1939, p. 233. 



Philonthus apiripennis Lynch, 1884, p. 155. — Fauvel, 1SS7, p. 232 (as synonym) . — 

 Villada, 1901, p. 30.— Beknhauer and Schubekt, 1914 p. 338.— Tottenham, 

 1939, p. 233. (Not Cameron, 1932.) 



Description. — Head black, pronotum rufopiceous, elj'tra piceous 

 with apical border testaceous (much more widely near suture), abdo- 

 men piceous with posterior margins rufous. Head suborbicuhir, pos- 

 terior angles entirely rounded; eyes at about their length from base; 

 disk impunctate except for two large punctures forming (with two 

 supraocular) a row between the eyes; with very fine punctulae and 

 very fine strigulose ground sculpture. Pronotum one twenty-fourth 

 longer than wide, distinctly narrowed in front but with sides feebly 

 arcuate ; base broadly rounded but posterior angles traceable ; with two 

 discal series of four punctures, fairly evenly spaced, and with about 

 four lateral punctures ; ground sculpture more distinct than on head. 

 Elytra with indefinite posteriorly-directed submuricate punctures, not 

 very dense; without ground sculpture. Male., eighth sternite with a 

 very feeble triangular emargination at least four times as wide as deep, 

 posterior angles rounded. Female., eighth sternite truncate. Length, 

 41/^ to 51/^ mm. 



Type locality. — Colombia. Of apicipennis^ "America meridionali et 

 boreali." 



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

 Museum, Berlin. Of apicipennis., in the Museo Argentina Ciencias 

 Natural Bernard Kivadavia, Buenos Aires. 



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



Martinique: (Bernhauor and Schubert, 1914). 



Grenadines: Carriacou (Blackwelder stations 143B, 144B). 



South America: Colomiua (Erichson, 1840) ; Brazil (Sharp, 18S5), Argentina 



(Lynch, 1884), New Grenada, Brazil, Argentina (Bernhauer and Schubert, 



1914). 

 Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, PANAifA (Sharp, 18S5). 

 North America: Carolina (Erichson, 1840), Gulf States and Arizona (Horn, 

 1S84), Califobnia, Florida (Leng, 1920), Texas, Arizona (U.S.N.M.). 



