74 ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY. [iart hi. 



(Nymphalidiie) a fine genus which has 4 Antillean species and 

 2 in Central America ; Lucinia (Nymphalidae) 2 species, confined 

 to Jamaica and Hayti ; and Kricogonia belonging to the Pieridae, 

 which has 2 West Indian species, while 1 inhabits Mexico and 

 Florida. Genera which show a special relation to Central 

 America are Euptoieta, Eumceits, and Nathalis. Almost all the 

 other genera are South American, the total number recorded in 

 each family as occurring in the West Indian islands, being, 3 of 

 Dauaidge ; 1 of Heliconiidse ; 2 of Satyridae ; 18 of Nymphalidse ; 

 1 of Erycinidae ; 4 of Lyccenidae ; 6 of Pierida3 ; 1 of Papilio- 

 nidiB, and 10 of Hesperidae. The' genus Papilio is represented 

 by about 20 species, 2 of which are North American, 4 South 

 American, while the rest form little characteristic groups allied to 

 those of Central America. The most marked feature seems to be 

 the scarcity of Satyridae and the almost total absence of Erycinida?, 

 with a great deficiency in characteristic Neotropical forms of 

 Danaidae and Nymphalidae. 



Coleoptera. — Cicindelidae and Carabidae are very poorly repre- 

 sented, by a few species of wide-spread groups, and hardly any 

 peculiar genera. No Lucanidae are recorded. Of Cetoniidae, 

 Gymndis only appears to be represented. Buprestidae seem to 

 be more numerous ; 15 genera being recorded, but almost all 

 of wide distribution. One only is peculiar — Tetragonoschoma, 

 found in Hayti ; Halecia is the only exclusively South American 

 genus ; Chalcophora is widely scattered over the tropical regions 

 but is absent from South America, yet it occurs in the Nearctic 

 region and extends to Jamaica and Guadeloupe. We now come 

 to the Longicorns, the only group of Coleoptera which seems to 

 be well represented, or which has been carefully collected. No 

 less than 40 genera are known from the West Indian islands, 

 and 15 of these are peculiar. Prionidae are proportionately very 

 numerous, there being 10 genera, 2 of which are widely dis- 

 tributed in both South and North America, 1 is North American, 

 and 1 South American, while the following are peculiar, — 

 Stenodontes (Hayti and Cuba) ; Bendroblaptus (Cuba) ; MonO' 

 desmus (Cuba and Jamaica) ; Prostervodes (Cuba) ; Solenoptera 

 and Elateropsis, the two largest genera found in most of the 



