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sutures of the former but tlie posterior femora are unarmed. The 

 anterior femora are spinose beneath. It keys to trinitatis but can 

 be immediately distinguished by its smaller size. The unimpressed 

 front of the head and the male characters serve to separate it from 

 all other West Indian species of either Belonuchus or Philonthus. 

 The type was found in rotting guava fruit. 



11. BELONUCHUS MUNDUS Erichson 



Belonuchus mundus Erichson, 1840, p. 425. — Solsky, 18G9, p, 263. — BEBNHAUEa 

 and ScHXJBEBT, 1914, p. 371. 



Description. — Black, elytra rufotestaceous, abdomen sometimes pi- 

 cescent. Heaxl slightly narrowed behind eyes, which are about their 

 length from base ; anterior half with a median longitudinal impressed 

 line; punctures coarse and impressed, absent on vertex and sparse 

 even behind eyes; very finely and indistinctly strigulose. Pronotum 

 about one-eighth longer than wide, very slightly wider in front, basal 

 angles completely rounded; dorsal series of five (or sometimes six) 

 punctures, and with about six lateral punctures; ground sculpture 

 as on head. Elytra with moderately coarse but uneven punctures 

 separated by their diameter or less; intervals smooth and flat. Ab- 

 domen with moderately coarse and dense punctures, sometimes sub- 

 muricate; surface iridescent but without visible gi'ound sculpture. 

 Male^ eighth sternite with a rounded triangular emargination twice 

 as wide as deep. Female^ eighth sternite rounded. Length, 6 to 

 7 m.m. 



Type locality. — "Americae meridionalis ins. St. Vincentii. .". 



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

 Museum, Berlin. 



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



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 221, 226, 227, 230, 231). 

 St. Vincent: (Erichson, 1840; British Museum; U.S.N.M.). 

 Grenada: (British Museum ; Blackwelder stations 132, 153A). 

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



Specimens examined. — I have seen 12 examples in the British 

 Museum, 69 collected by me during 1935-37, and 3 in the United 

 States National Museum. The last were from the original series, 

 received in exchange. 



Remarks. — This species is distinguished from all other West In- 

 dian species by having the elytra alone red. 



The Bernhauer and Schubert record of South America is almost 

 certainly an error, since they do not mention the type locality. 



My specimens were all taken in freshly cut or rotting cocoa pods. 



