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Holotype: 



MCZ 2460 (dry), Cumana, Venezuela. 



Paratypes: 



USNM E535 (4 dry), Itajahy, St. Catherina, Brazil, July 1919. 



USNM E536 (1 dry), coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 1919. 



MCZ 7569 (2 dry), Cumana, Venezuela. 



MCZ 2462 (7 dry), Itabapuana, Brazil. 



MCZ 2463 (2 dry), Bahia, Cauna Pregos, Itaparica, Brazil. 



MCZ 3999 (1 dry), Manzanilla Beach, east coast of Trinidad. 



MCZ 7242 (4 dry), east coast, Mayaro Bay, Trinidad. 



Mortensen considered this a subspecies of Mellita quinques perforata, 

 rather than a distinct species (Monograph, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 425). 



Mellita quinques perforata var. tenuis H. L. Clark 



Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 89, no. 3099, p. 442, 

 pi. 60, fig. 2; pL 61, fig. 2, 1940. 



Holotype: 



USNM E5656 (dry), Sanibel Island, Florida, 3-4 ft., February 1929. 



Paratypes: 



USNM E3287 (1 dry). Tarpon Springs, Florida. 



USNM 33240 (1 dry), Charlotte Harbor, Florida. 



MCZ 2543 (6 dry), 2 miles outside Sanibel Island, Florida, 2-4 ft. 



MCZ 7570 (1 dry), Tarpon Springs, Florida. 



Mespilia globulus var. pellocrica h. L. Clark 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 34, 

 no. 4, p. 322, 1912. 



Syntypes: 



MCZ 1507 (1 dry), Samoa. 



MCZ 1508 (1 dry), Suva Reef, Viti Levu, Fiji, Dec. 24, 1897. 



MCZ 1509 (1 dry), Ponape, Caroline Islands. 



MCZ 1016 (1 dry), same as 1507. 



MCZ 1913 (1 alcohol), Bohol, Philippines. 



Metalia dicrana H. L. Clark 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 46, 

 no. 2, p. 211, pi. 146, fig. 16; pi. 160. figs. 1-4, 1917. 



