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Chevrolat in his Coleopteres de I'ile de Cuba - records 16 genera 

 and 30 species from material in the collections of Gvmdlach, 

 Poey, and Chevrolat, of which 11 are described as new. Dr. A. 

 Stahl ^ lists two species, one each of the genus Buprestis and Chryso- 

 hothins from Porto Rico. Ed. Fleutiaux and A. Salle published a 

 List des Coleopteres de la (Tuadeloupe * in which they record 9 genera 

 and 14 species from Guadeloupe, one of which is described as new. 

 Dr. Juan Gundlach ^ records the same number of genera and species 

 from Cuba as Chevrolat, without describing any new species, but 

 giving more definite localities for the species. The same author, in 

 La Fauna Puerto Eiquena,® lists 2 genera and 4 species from Porto 

 Rico. Charles W. Leng and Andrew Mutchler, in A Preliminary 

 List of the Coleoptera of the West Indies as Recoided to January 

 1, 1914,^ list 24 genera and 66 species from that region, which are 

 decreased by synonymy in their supplement to the above paper* 

 to 64 species. 



In the present paper are included 29 genera and 107 species. 



The term West Indies as used in the present paper includes the 

 islands lying in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico and may be 

 divided into four groups. First the Bahamas, which consist of about 

 700 small islands, composed mostly of low lying heaps of calcareous 

 shell and coral debris deposited on a submarine plateau of vast 

 area, forming a submerged link with the mainland of Florida; second 

 the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, 

 and the Virgin Islands, of these Haiti is the c enter and summit of the 

 Antillean Range, and from Mount Tina, which is 10,000 feet above 

 the sea level, the Antilles slope gently down to western Cuba and 

 Jamaica, and to the Virgin Islands on the east; third the Lesser 

 Antilles, consisting of a large number of small islands lying in two 

 rows, an outer row of limestone and coral inlets and an inner row of 

 volcanic formation; and fourth a number of islands lying along 

 the northern coast of South America, of which Trinidad and Tobago 

 are the most important, and which in a remote period were severed 

 from the continent by the wearing of the equatorial currents. These 

 islands, with the exception of those along the northern coast of South 

 America, are supposed to be of more recent formation than the 

 portions of the adjacent continents. The Greater Antilles during 

 the Tertiary period are supposed to have been a series of active vol- 



^ Ann. Soc. Ent. Prance, set. 4, vol. 7, 1867, pp. 571-616. 

 « Fauna de Puerto Rico, 1882, p. 171. 



* Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, 1889 (published In 1890), pp. 425-484. 



* Contribucion & la Entomologia Cubana, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891. (Issued in sheets with thf 

 Anales R. Acad. Cien Havana.) 



3 Ann. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., ser. 1, vol. 2-1, 1894, p. 623. 

 ' Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 33, 1914, pp. 429-431. 



* Idem, vol. 37, 1917. p. 20.5. 



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