ADDENDUM 



Inopeplini 



The genus treated under the name Inojieplus on page 138, above, 

 was originally segregated and named as a new genus, the sole repre- 

 sentative of a supposedly new subtribe of the reorganized subfamily 

 Osoriinae. After the galley proofs had been returned to the printer, 

 Dr. John Bowman, of Pittsburgh, drew my attention to the fact that 

 Tnopeplus of the Cucujidae possesses certain characters that indicate 

 affinity with the Staphylinidae rather than with the Cucujidae. 

 Upon examination I find that Inopeplus is unquestionably the same 

 genus that I had described as new. I can find no characters to dis- 

 tinguish it from the Staphylinidae except the 4-scgmcntcd hind tarsus 

 of the male. Although this character is unique among the Staphy- 

 linidae, it is by no means a great departure, since the staphylinids 

 possess nearly every other possible variation in tarsal structure. 



The larva of /. praeusius has been figured by Peyerimhoff . There 

 is little question that the figure represents a cucujid larva, but there 

 is some doubt of the identification of the larva with this species. 



It appears likely to me that the genus is properly placed as above. 

 I have therefore replaced m.y name for the genus with that of Ino- 

 peplus, leaving the diagnosis, key, and four new species unchanged. 

 Inasmuch as three species of Inopeplus have been recorded from the 

 the West Indies, there is some likelihood that one or more of my 

 new species will be found to be synonyms. However, the specimens 

 of Inopeplus in the Cucujidae collection of the United States National 

 Museum represent three species, only one of them named, and come 

 from islands other than those from which my specimens came. I 

 can now merely point out the chance of synonymy and leave the 

 seven names for later study. 



The genus has previously been recorded from the West Indies as 

 follows: 



Inopeplus Smith, List of the coleopterous insects in the collection of the British 

 Museum, vol. 1, p. 4, 1851. 

 Ino Laporte, Etudes entomologiques . . . , pt. 1, p. 135, 1834. (Not 



Schrank, 1803.) 

 Euryplatus IMotsciiulsky, Etudes entomologiques .... pt. 8, p. 95, 



1859. 

 Pseudino Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 9, p. 208, 1869. 

 aeneomicans Waterhouse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 3, p. 213, 1879. 



(Jamaica.) 

 insularis Grouvelle, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 20, p. 41, 1898. — Sharp, Bio- 

 logia Ccntrali-Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 511, 1899. (St. 

 Vincent, Grenada, Guatemala.) 

 praeuslus Chevrglat, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 10, p. 212, 1858. — Lacok- 

 DAiRE, Genera des col4opt6res . . . , Atla-s, pi. 21, fig. 2, a-g. — Peyer- 

 iMHOFF, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 71, p. 715, figs. 4-6, 1902. — Wheel- 

 er, Zoologica, vol. 3, No. 5, p. 183, 1921. (Guadeloupe, St. Vincent.) 

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