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traces of transverse strigulae. Ahdonien with distinct but very ir- 

 I'cgular strigulae obscuring any punctures. Male^ eighth sternite with 

 an abrupt triangular emargination over twice as wide as deep; eighth 

 tergite bluntly quadridentate, the middle teeth rather widely sep- 

 arated. Feniale, eighth tergite with four slender processes, the inner 

 pair longer and more slender than the outer. Length 1% to 2 mm. 



Type locality. — "In Puerto Rico et in Colombia." Of infmms, 

 Cuba ; of distans, Rio Purus, Amazons, Brazil ; of cu7)ianen^is, Vene- 

 zuela. 



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

 Museum, Berlin. Of cumaneTisis, probably in the Senckenburg Mu- 

 seum, Frankfort am Main; of dlstans, in the British Museum; of 

 riifimus, either in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 

 or the British Museum, London. 



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



Cuba: (Fauvel, 1863), Cayamas (Schwarz, iu U.S.N.M.), Soledad (Darlington, 

 in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), mountains north of Imias, Oriente (Darlington, 

 in M.C.Z. ). 



Jamaica: (Hubbard, in U.S.N.M.), Ti'oy (Blackwelder station 409), Manchioneal 

 (Blackwelder station 9B), Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377), Trin- 

 ityville (Blackwelder station 428), May Pen (Blackwelder station 425C), 

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

 421), Whitfield Hall (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



Hispaniola: Haiti, Port-au-Prince (Audant, in U.S.N.M.) ; Dominican Republic, 

 Puerto Plata, (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), Mount Quita-Espuela (Darlington, 

 in U.S.N.M.). 



Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1830b; U.S.N.M.). 



Antigua: (Blackwelder station 277A ; H. E. Box, as Blackwelder station 4440). 



Dominica: (Blackwelder stations 235B, 237, 248A, 251, 252, 257C). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 220B, 220C, 221, 224, 226, 227, 230, 231; 

 H. E. Box, as Blackwelder station 444B). 



St. Vincent: (U.S.N.M.; British Museum). 



Grenada: (U.S.N.M.; British Museum), Blackwelder stations 132, 137, 153A). 



Trinidad: Sangre Grande (Blackwelder station lOOA). 



South America: Colombia (Erichson, 1839b), Brazil (Sharp, 1883), Venezuela 

 (Scriba, 1855, as cumanensis) . 



Central America: Nicaragua, Guatemala (Sharp, 1883), Mexico (British 

 Museum). 



North America: Florida (Leng, 1920; Blackwelder, 1938). 



Specimens examined. — From the West Indies I have seen 295 

 examples in the British Museum, 8 from the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, 22 in the United States National Museum, and 1907 

 collected by me during 1935-37. 



Remarks. — This is the commonest West Indian Goproporus and is 

 equally abundant in Central America. It can generally be dis- 

 tinguished by its small size and its coloring, but from ehomis it is 



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