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semicircular emargination. Female^ eighth sternite broadly rounded. 

 Length, 3 to 5 mm. 



Type locality Puerto Kico. Of Ihihahis, Haiti; of nigro- 



coeruleus, Jamaica (although Dr. Cameron recorded this species only 

 from Haiti, the example labeled type is from Jamaica) ; of funerulus^ 

 St. Vincent; of demmeli., Cuba, province of Pinar del Rio, Sierra del 

 Rosario, vicinity of Cayajabos; of carhoiiarius, Cuba, province of Pinar 

 del Rio, Sierra del Rosario, Cayajabos. 



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

 Museum, Berlin. Of limhatus and 7iigrocoeruhus, in Cameron col- 

 lection; of funeruliis^ in the British Museum; of carhonarius and 

 demmeV^ in collection of Alexander Bierig (one "cotype" of the 

 latter in the United States National Museum (No. 52744). 



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



Cuba: (Chevrolat and Fauvel, 1863; Leng and Mutchler, 1914; Cameron collec- 

 tion, as nigroeocruleus and humilis), Cayajabos (Bierig, 1933, as dem- 

 meli and carhonarins ; U.S.N.M.), Almendares (Bierig, in U.S.N.M.), Cay- 

 amas (Schwarz, in U.S.N.M.), Aspiro (Bierig, in U.S.N.M., as carbonarius), 

 Sierra del Rosario (Bierig, 19.33, as cnrhonarins and demmeli), Soledad 

 (Darlington, in M. C. Z. and U.S.N.]\L), Cauto El Cristo, Oriente (Darling- 

 ton, in M.r.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Rangel Mountains, Pinar del Rio (Darling- 

 ton, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



Jamaica: (Cameron, 1922, as nigrocoeruJeus ; Hubbard, in U.S.N.M.), Black 

 River (Blackwelder station 416), May Pen (Blackwelder station 424A), 

 Milk River (Blackwelder station 41.5), Spanish Town (Blackwelder sta- 

 tion 377), Santa Cruz (Blackwelder station 421), Moneague (Darlington, 

 in M.C.Z.) , King.ston (Darlington, in M.C.Z. ; Blackwelder station 379). 



Hispaniola: Haiti (Cameron, 1922, as limhatus and nigroeoeruleus ; British 

 Museum; Cameron collection); Dominican Republic, Barahona (Darling- 

 ton, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Sanchez (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), Constanza 

 (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), San Jos6 de las Matas (Darling- 

 ton, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Puerto Plata (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1840; Chevrolat and Fauvel, 1863; Leng and Mutchler, 

 1914; Wolcott, 1924, 1936), Jayuya (Oakley, in U.S.N.M.). 



Virgin Islands: Tortola (Cameron collection). 



St. Croix: (Chevrolat and Fauvel, 18(53; Leng and Mutchler, 1914; Blackwelder 

 station 341). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 2()9A, 211A; Cameron collection). 



Barbados: (Blackwelder station 198B). 



St. Vincent: (British Museum and Cameron collection, as ardiius Sharp; 

 Cameron, 1922, as funervlus; Blackwelder stations 166, 170, 176A). 



Grenada: (II. H. Smith, in British Museum and Cameron collection, as arduus; 

 U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen 14 examples in the British Mu- 

 seum, 18 in Dr. Cameron's collection, 31 from the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, 8 in the United States National Museum, and 2 

 others received from Sr. Bierig, and 126 collected by me during 

 1935-57. 



