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Genus CHONDRODESMUS Silvestri 1897b, p. 13. 



Dirhabdophallus Pocock 1909, p. 161; Carl 1914, p. 886. 



TYPE SPECIES: Chondrodesmus armatus Silvestri, by monotypy. 

 Chondrodesmus acanthurus (Peters). 



P olydesmus (Oxyurus) acanthurus Peters 1864, p. 532; Carl 1914, 

 p. 972. 



TYPE: Probably Zool. Mus. Berlin. 



TYPE LOCALITY: "Veragua" (probably Veraguas Prov.), Panama. 

 Chondrodesmus acuticollis Attems 1931, p. 47. 



TYPE: Depository not given. 



TYPE LOCALITY: Acajutla, El Salvador. 



OTHER LOCALITIES: Bebedero, Costa Rica (Attems 1933). In 7 de- 

 partments of El Salvador (Kraus 1954b). 

 Chondrodesmus alidens Chamberlin 1922, p. 46. 



TYPE: U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 857. 



TYPE LOCALITY: La Ceiba, Honduras. 

 Chondrodesmus allenae Loomis 1959b, p. 2. 



TYPE: U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 2666. 



TYPE LOCALITY: Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Zamorano, near 

 Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 



Original spelling of the species name was "alleni" but R. L. Hoffman 

 pointed out that since the species was named for Mrs. Paul Allen the 

 name should be feminine. 

 Chondrodesmus atrophus Chamberlin 1925, p. 42. 



TYPE: Mus. Comp. Zool. 



TYPE LOCALITY: Ft. Sherman, Canal Zone. 



OTHER LOCALITIES: Monte Lirio, Canal Zone; Juan Dfas, Panama 

 Prov., Panama. 

 Chondrodesmus ensiger (Pocock). 



Dirhabdophallus ensiger Pocock 1909, p. 165; Attems 1938, p. 86. 



TYPE: British Mus. 



TYPE LOCALITY: Omilteme, Guerrero, Mexico. 



PARATYPE LOCALITY: Xautipa, Guerrero, Mexico. 

 Chondrodesmus euliotus Chamberlin 1933, p. 21. 



TYPE: Collection of R. V. Chamberlin. 



TYPE AND PARATYPE LOCALITY: Chitaria, Costa Rica. 

 Chondrodesmus falciphallus Chamberlin 1933, p. 20. 



TYPE: Collection of R. V. Chamberlin. 



TYPE LOCALITY: Parismina, Costa Rica. 

 Chondrodesmus frauenfeldianus (Humbert and Saussure). 



Polydesmus frauenfeldianus Humbert and Saussure 1870, p. 172. 



Leptodesmus frauenfeldianus Silvestri 1896a, p. 5; Carl 1914, p. 972. 



TYPE: Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve. 



TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia. 



