58 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I4I 



Nyctibora stygia 



Haiti. — Under loose dead bark of mesquite tree, 52 specimens 

 (Rehn and Hebard, 1927). 



Oniscosoma spp. 



Australia. — The females bury themselves in loose soil or dust (Tep- 

 per, 1893). 



Opisthoplatia orientalis 



Formosa. — On or in swampy ground or under rotten trees on the 

 ground (Takahashi, 1924). 



Panchlora antillarum 



Dominican Republic. — In cultivated grounds, palms, fruits, etc. 

 (Rehn and Hebard, 1927). 



Panchlora nivea 



Panama. — As Pycnosceloides aporus, in jungle under decaying 

 banana stem in which were boring individuals of Litopeltis bispinosa 

 (Hebard, 1920). 



Texas. — Lives in foliage and in the green sheaths of plants (He- 

 bard, 1943a). 



Cuba. — On cane leaves ; according to Gundlach this genus lives 

 under the loose bark of trees (Rehn and Hebard, 1927). 



Puerto Rico. — In rotting trunks of coconut palms (Sein, 1923). 

 Most specimens have been collected from the very rotten interior of 

 coconut palms (Wolcott, 1950). 



Trinidad. — On corn ; under old log ; flies readily to lights ( Princis 

 and Kevan, 1955). 



Panchlora sagax 



Dominica. — In decaying stump in banana patch and in rotting wood. 

 In Puerto Rico, in rotten coconut palm (Rehn and Hebard, 1927). 



Panesthia australis 



Australia. — In burrows under the thick bark of fallen and rotting 

 trees (Shaw, 1914). In loose detritus, beneath clods of earth, and in 

 fissures at foot of cliffs along the seashore beyond direct action of the 

 waves (Tepper, 1893). 



Panesthia laevicollis 



Australia. — Under decayed logs in coastal scrub. It burrows into 

 the soft part of the log (Froggatt, 1906). 



