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



Bahamas: Watling Island (Greenway, in M.C.Z.). 



Cuba: (Casey, 1906; Leng and Mutchler, 1914), Soledad (Darlington, in M.C.Z. 



andU.S.N.M.). 

 Hispaniola: Haiti (Cameron, 1922). 

 Puerto Rico: El Yunque ( Blackwelder station 351A). 

 St. John: (Ericlison, lS39b; Lacordaire, 1854). 

 St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 220F, 227). 

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

 (South America: (Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914).) 



Specimens examined. — I have seen eight examples collected by me 

 in 1935-37, three from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and one 

 in the British INIuseum, beside the three types of cubensis in the 

 United States National Museum. I have not examined the type in 

 Dr. Cameron's collection. 



Rema-rhs. — This is a rather variable species in details of color and 

 punctation, but I am not able to find characters that will divide it at 

 all satisfactorily. 



The Erichson species was certainly unknown to Col. Casey when he 

 described ciibensis.^ and it was probably unlcnown to Dr. Cameron 

 when he described rufoniger. I have directly compared the type of 

 cubensis with specimens from the other islands, but of rufoniger I 

 have made only a brief examination. I believe there is little doubt 

 that they are all the same species. 



The record of South America by Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914, is 

 almost certainly an error, since they make no mention of the type 

 locality. 



My specimens were collected from decaying cocoa pods, from 

 under chips and frass on stumps, and flying at dusk. 



2. HOLISUS GUILDINGII Erichson 



HoHsus guildingli Ebechson, 1839b, p.SOO. — IxAcordaire, 1854, p. 65. — Bern- 

 HATJEB and Schubert, 1914, p. 322. 



Description. — Head black to rufopiceous, pronotum and abdomen 

 rufous or rufotestaccous, elytra testaceous; pronotum with aeneous 

 luster. Head quadrate, as wide as long, sides arcuate; with distinctly 

 elongate umbilicate punctures fairly evenly scattered and not very 

 distinctly marking ridges in front, leaving a smooth midline; surface 

 with fine but dense longitudinal strigulae. Pronotum suborbiculate 

 but with basal angles slightly prominent; with coarse punctures more 

 or less serially limiting the smooth midline and scattered laterally, 

 more sparsely in fi-ont; with strigulae generally diagonal. Elytra 

 moderately densely and feebly punctate; surface shining but slightly 

 uneven. Ahdomen sparsely and moderately finely submuricately 

 punctate; with indistinct transverse strigulae. Length, 3I/2 to 

 5V> mm. 



