416 BULLETIN 182, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



"En el $ , solo esta cortamente recto-recortado el apice del 6." 

 esternito abdominal, mientras en la hembra se nota una punta obtusa. 

 Los protarsos estan algo dilatados hacia la base." 



Type locality. — Cuba. 



Types. — In the collection of Alexander Bierig. 



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



Cuba: Province of Habatia (Bierig, 1940), province of Pinar del Rio (Bierig, 

 1940). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen no examples of this species. 



Remarks. — "Hace afios, este coleoptero fue deterniinado por Ram- 

 bousek como Paederomimus sp., y, en efecto, cierta semejanza es inne- 

 gable. Pero un examen concienzudo de los caracteres primordiales 

 de este geiiero y de PhiJonthus aclaro que ha de aiiadirse al ultimo ; 

 sin embargo bajo un subgenero aun a crear. Es de talle esbelto y muy 

 gracil, a la armadura tibial escasea y remeda la del ruso hrunieollis 

 Hochh., en el cual, ademas, veo un parentesco estrecho, general. Se 

 senala luego por el torax subcilindrico, un ligero irisar superficial, 

 excepto los elitros aeneos, y la palidez del extremo antenal. En con- 

 cepto erichsoniano entra en el grupo de las especies de 6 puntos 

 pronotales." 



See Remarks under genus PhiJonthus. 



"Se encuentra durante todo el aiio en la hojarasca, en los Noviembres 

 principalmente (Bierig)." 



11. PHILONTHUS SILVATICUS Cameron 



Pliilonthus silvativm Cameron, 1922, p. 119. — Scheerpei.tz, 19,'?3, p. 1361. 



Description. — Black, elytra bronze-green. Head broader in front, 

 sides gradually convergent behind the eyes, posterior angles broadly 

 rounded ; eyes at less than their length from base: with a pair of widely 

 separated discal punctures between the eyes; without strong ground 

 sculpture. Pronotmn nearly cylindrical, scarcely narrowed behind; 

 with two discal series of five punctures, and with about five lateral 

 punctures. Elytra moderately finely and moderately' closely punctate. 

 Abdomen with the bases of the three basal tergites closely and mod- 

 erately coar.sely punctate, the rest much more sparingly and more finely 

 punctate. Male, eighth sternite with a small rounded emargination. 

 Female, (eighth sternite rounded). Length, 6% to 7 mm. (From 

 Cameron.) 



Type locality. — Jamaica. 



Types. — In Dr. Cameron's collection. 



Records. — The following is the only record known to me : 



Jamaica: (Cameron, 1922). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen nine examples of this species, 

 including the type, in Dr. Cameron's collection. 



