Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, B.C. 



Volume 118 1966 Number 3526 



DESCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS 



OF WEST INDIAN CERAMBYCIDAE 



(COLEOPTERA) 



By John A. Chemsak^ 



This paper is intended primarily to report on a collection of Ceram- 

 bycidae made by Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke, Chairman of the Depart- 

 ment of Entomology, U.S. National Museum, while a member of the 

 Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions to the British Virgin 

 Islands and British West Indies in 1956 and 1958. A total of 136 

 Cerambycidae representing 13 genera and 21 species was taken on 

 these f aunistically interesting islands. Of these, six are presumed to be 

 new and one previously described is considered to belong to a new 

 genus. 



A second objective is to contribute further to the knowledge of the 

 cerambycid fauna of the West Indies. Although no major monograph 

 covering this area as a whole has yet been published, a number of 

 papers dealing with island groups or reporting new species have been 

 published. Subsequent to 1862 when Chevrolat described several 

 of the Cuban species, the major works have been those of Gahan (1895) 



* Department of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley. 



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