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brane never infuscated; apex of the posterior femora very 
rarely reddish; the sinus of the male genital segment being 
much more deeply sinuate. 
Megalotomus rufipes Westwood 
1842. Megalotomus rufipes Westwood, Hope Cat., II, 19. 
1842. ? Alydus simplex Westw., Hope Cat., II, 18. 
1842. Alydus consobrinus Westw., Hope Cat., II, 20. 
1860. Alydus pallescens Stal, Rio Jan. Hem., I, 34. 
1871. Alydus debilis Walker, Cat. Het., IV, 160. 
1901. Megalotomus jamaicencis Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., VII, 427. 
Fifty-one specimens from Antigua and nine from Barbados. 
This is a very common species throughout the West Indies. 
Recorded from the following islands: Cuba, Isle of Pines, 
Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent, and Guadeloupe. The collec- 
tion of the American Museum of Natural History contains 
specimens from Cuba, San Domingo, Guadeloupe, Porto Rico, 
and Martinique. It is subject to great color variation, as point- 
ed out by Van Duzee (Bull. Buffalo Soe. Nat. Sei., VIII, 12, 
1907). There is no doubt in my mind that Distant has re- 
described one of the many color forms as M. jamaicensis from 
Jamaica. 
This species may be recognized from our M. quinquespinosus 
Say by having the humeral angles produced in an acute back- 
wardly directed spine and the fourth antennal segment longer 
than the second and third segments taken together; the ter- 
minal segment not pale ringed at base. 
Harmostes serratus Fabricius 
1794. Harmostes serratus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. IV, 75. 
Twenty-four specimens from Antigua. Known as a common 
species in the West Indies and already recorded from Jamaica, 
Cuba, San Domingo, Grenada, and St. Vincent. Specimens 
from Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto Rico are in the collection of 
the American Museum of Natural History. 
The apex of the tylus is produced into a sharp spine, and the 
antenniferous tubercles are also outwardly armed with sharp 
spines; the lateral margins of the pronotum serrate; the apex 
of the rostrum reaches upon the base of the abdomen. Johnson 
and Fox (Ent. News, III, 59, 1892) report nebulosus Stal from 
