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4. BELONUCHUS GAGATES Erichson 



Beloniichus (/(Kjatcs Ekichson, 1840, p. 424. — Duval, 1857, p. 38. — Chevroi-at and 

 Fauvel, 18(53, p. 433. — Bkknuauer and Schubert, li)14, p. 370. — Leng and 

 MuTCHLER, 1914, p. 406 ; 1917, p. 199.— Wolcott, 1924, p. 78.— Gowdey, 1926, 

 p. 12.— Wolcott, 1936, p. 197. 



Beloniichus miliar Erichson, 1840, p. 424. — Beknhauer and Schuhert, 1914, p. 

 371.— Leng and Mutchleb, 1914, p. 406. 



Mvsicodcrtis ni(jroc(ieruJcits Camp:kon, 1913a, p. 175. 



Miisicoderus viyrocoeruleus Leng and Mutchler, 1917, p. 198 (misspelling). 



Bclonitclius goicdeyi Bernhauer, MS. — Gowdey, 1928, p. 2. — Bernhauer, 193o, 

 p. 91. 



Belonuchiis vigrocaeruleus (Cameron) Scheerpeltz, 1933, p. 1379. 



Description. — Black to nifopiceoiis, often witli metallic lustre except 

 on elytra. Head slightly narrowed behind the eyes, and sides rounded 

 into base; eyes at about their length from base; in front with a longi- 

 tudinal impression of varying length ; punctures large and umbilicate 

 but very sparse; with fine strigulose gi'ound sculpture. Pronotuni not 

 or scarcely longer than wide, widest in front with front angles rounded, 

 sides nearly straight, moderately narrowed posteriorly to completely 

 rounded base; dorsal series of five punctures, and with five or six lat- 

 eral punctures; with ground sculpture as on head. Elytra with punc- 

 tures separated by once or twice their diameter by flat even intervals ; 

 not distinctly coriaceous. Abdomen very sparsely and moderately 

 finely submuricately or excavately punctate; without distinct ground 

 sculpture but generally somewdiat iridescent. Male, eighth sternite 

 with a rounded emargination about three times as wide as deep. 

 Female, eighth sternite rounded. Length, Gi/^ to 9 mm. 



Type locality. — "Puerto Rico . . ., Cuba . . ."' Of gowdeyi Cin- 

 chona, Jamaica; of mimix, St. Thomas and St. John; of nigrocaeru- 

 leus, Newcastle district, Jamaica. 



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

 Museum, Berlin. Of go^rdeyi, in the British Museum ; of mhutx, with 

 gagates; of nigrocaeruleus, in Dr. Cameron's collection. 



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



Bahamas Island: Nas.sau (Busck, in U.S.N.M.). 



Cuba: (Ericli.^on, 1840; DuVal, 1857; Clievrolat and Fanvel, 1863; Leng and 

 Mutchler, 1914; British Museum), Marianao (Rambousek, in Cameron col- 

 lection), Habana (Kambousek, in Cameron collection; Baker, in Casey col- 

 lection, U.S.N.M.), Cayamas (Schvvarz. in U.S.N.M.), Santiago de las Vegas 

 (Dimmock, in U.S.N.M.), Soledad (DarUngton, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



Jamaica: (Dei)artment of Agriculture coIU'ction, Jamaica; Gowdey, 1926, 1928; 

 Leng and Mutchler, 1917, as f/af/ntes and iiifnocdcriilcus ; Bernhauer, 1935, 

 as (jotcdcyi : British Museum; Schaus and Hubbard, in U.S.N.M.), Cinchona 

 (British Museum, as ijoirdci/i), Newcastle (Cameron, 1913, as nigrocueru- 

 leus), Gordon Town (Blackwelder station 383). 



Hispaniola: (Leng and Mutchler, 1914). 



