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

 Museum, Berlin. Of schaumi and parvulus in the Deutsche Ento- 

 mologische Institut; of longicornis, vicinu^, tarsalis, flavicans, inor- 

 natus, vilk, perplcxiis, and apiclpennis, in the British Museum; of 

 uiacidicoUis, in the collection of Blanche Rancin, Caen, France; of 

 hrevipennis, thoracicu-s, and paUidiceps^ in the Casey collection in the 

 United States National Museum; of pumilio, in collection of Max 

 Bernhauer; of anteimalis^ not recorded but in either the collection 

 of Malcolm Cameron or the British Museum. 



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



Cuba: Cayamas (Sclnvarz, in U.S.N.M.), Aspiro (Bierig, in Blackwelder collec- 

 tion), Soledad (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



Jamaica: (Hubbard, in U.S.N.M. ; Cameron collection), Spanish Town (Black- 

 welder station 377), Milk River (Blackwelder station 415), Santa Cruz 

 (Blackwelder station 421), Trinityville (Blackwelder station 428), Kingston 

 (Darlington, in M.C.Z. ). 



Hispaniola: Dominican Republic, Sanchez (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), 

 Puerto Plata (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), Villa Altagracia (Darlington, in 

 M.C.Z.). 



Puerto Rico: Maricao (Blackwelder station 47A). 



St. Croix: (Blackwelder stations 341, 344). 



Guadeloupe: Basse Terre (Blackwelder station 79C). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 207C, 209A, 211A, 444B). 



Barbados: (Blackwelder stations 193A, 202A). 



St. Vincent: (Cameron, 1922a; British Museum). 



Grenadines: Mustique (British Museum; Cameron collection). 



Grenada: (Cameron, 1922a; British Museum; Cameron collection). 



Trinidad: Tacarigua (Blackwelder station 107C), foothills north of Tunapuna 

 (Weber, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), St. Augustine (Weber, in M.C.Z. and 

 U.S.N.M.), base of Galeota Point (Weber, in ^.C^j. and U.S.N.M.), 11 

 miles north of Arima (Weber, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



South America: (Erichson, 1839), Bbazil (Sharp, 1876, as longicornis, vicinus, 

 tursalis, and flavivans; Kraatz, 18t;0), Colombia (Erichson, 1839b; Sharp, 

 1885), Ai'.GENTiNA (Lynch, 1884), Venezuela (Fauvel, 1891). 



Central America: Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua (Sharp, 1885, as nanus, 

 inornatus, schaumi, and vUis), Mexico (Bernhauer, 1929). 



North America: Louisiana (Kraatz, 18G0; Sharp, 1885), Rhode Island, Vir- 

 ginia, North Carolina, New York, Missouri, Texas (Casey, 1906, as palli- 

 diceps), Michigan, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Mississippi (U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen 165 examples in the British 

 Museum (including types of Dr. Cameron's species), 27 in 

 Dr. Cameron's collection, 28 from the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy, 4 in the United States National Museum, 1 from Sr. Bierig in 

 my own collection, and 49 collected by me during 1935-37. In addi- 

 tion to these I have examined the types of Casey's species and good 

 series of North American specimens. 



Remarks. — My examination of examples of nanus ^ schaumi^ per- 

 plexus., apicipennis, and antennalis in the British Museum and in 

 Dr. Cameron's collection left me unable to distinguish any of the 



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