40 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 89 



Gonopods with basal joints large, galeate ; each apical joint rather 

 small, biramous at tip, curving outward and backward from the inner 

 side of the basal joint. 



AGENODESMUS RETICULATUS, n. sp. 



A male (type) and several females were collected at Fond des 

 Negre, Haiti, June 28, 1927, and on the same date two females were 

 found between Petit Goave and Leogane, by O. F. Cook and H. F. 

 Loomis. A female that does not differ strikingly from the more 

 southern specimens was collected at Le Borgne, on the north coast of 

 Haiti on March 26, 1930, by O. F. Cook. A mature female and a 

 younger specimen were collected on the north slope of Mount Misery, 

 St. Kitts, January 24, 1932. Four mature females were found on 

 the Bar de I'lsle, above Castries, St Lucia, February 2, 1932, and two 

 young were found at Roseau, Dominica; and two others from near 

 Grand Etang, Grenada, the same year. These specimens do not differ 

 among themselves or from Haitian specimens. 



Description. — Length of the largest specimen 2 mm-, width .25 mm. 

 Number of segments 18. 



Living color white with a slight tinge of pink. 



Head large, strongly convex ; surface distinctly reticulated and 

 hirsute, vertex without a median furrow. Antennae strongly clavate, 

 joints 2 and 3 subequal, each longer than joint 4 ; joint 5 broader than 

 long, about the same length as joint 2 or 3, considerably shorter than 

 joint 6, which also slightly exceeds it in thickness ; joints densely 

 hairy, especially the outer ones ; joints 4, 5, and 6 each with a long 

 and extremely fine hair on the outer side distally. 



First segment about twice as wide as long, with a broad, transverse 

 depression at middle, otherwise as given in the generic description. 



Ensuing segments with characters as given in the generic description. 



Last segment as long or longer than the penultimate segment, the 

 apex produced into a slightly downcurved papillate mucro, the lateral 

 margin on each side with three setae ; dorsal surface with a transverse 

 row of four long, erect bristles near the middle, and between this 

 row and the mucro are two additional bristles. 



Gonopods with each basal joint galeate, the surface somewhat his- 

 pid; apical joint arising from an opening in the inner surface of the 

 basal joint near the front and curving upward and backward, the joint 

 rather simple, terminating in two branches subequal in length but with 



