1898.] SBEEICOBN COLEOMEBA OF ST. "VIB-CBNT 325 



MiCRANOBIUM. 



Micranobium, Gorham, Biol. C.-Am., Col. iii. pt. 2, p. 202. 



MlCEAI^OBIUM EXIGUtJM. 



Micranobium exiguum, Grorh. Biol. 1. c. p. 202. 



Hab. St. Vincent: leeward side. Geenada: Balbhazar, wind- 

 ward side {H. H. Smith). 



There are only two specimens of the minute Anobiad which I 

 think may be identical with the one I have described under this 

 name from Guatemala ; but if they do indeed represent the same 

 species, I think they are the orher sex. The three terminal joints 

 of the antennae are dark and much longer than the basal portion, 

 the second abdominal segment is not much longer than the third, 

 and the thorax is not laterally compressed ; the head is received 

 more into the thorax. These two specimens are i-ather larger and 

 more shining than those here referred to M. pulicarimn. In dry 

 examples it is only possible by detaching the head and limbs to 

 study them, as they are closely contracted. 



MlCEANOBIUM PULICAEIUM. 



Micranobium pulicarium, Gorh. Biol. 1. c. p. 202, t. x. fig. 14. 



Hab. Geenada : Balthazar (windward side) and Grand Etang 

 (leeward side); Geenadines : Mustique Island {H. H. Smith). 



This minute species is about 1 millimetre in length. It is 

 distinguished from the M. exiguum? here recorded by its smaller size, 

 by the whole insect being narrower and with a more compressed 

 thorax, by the antennae being much shorter, with the three terminal 

 joints not much longer than the rest of the antennae, and by the 

 long second segment of the abdomen. The whole insect is brown, 

 clothed with a grey, fine pubescence. I think the specimens may 

 be females, but I do not think they are those of the preceding 

 species, although one example is from the same locality, Balthazar. 

 The antennae are so short and delicate that the greatest care is 

 necessary to extend them from dry specimens, clogged with gum. 



Cathoeama. 



Catorama, Guerin, Eev. Zool. 1850, p. 431. 

 Oathorama (Gemm. Cat. Col.), Gorh. Biol. O.-Am., Col. iii. pt. 2, 

 p. 207. 



Cathoeama heebaeitjm. 



Oathorama herbarium, Gorh. Biol. C.-Am. 1. c. p. 207. 



Hah. St. Vincent : leeward side. Geenada : St. George's and 

 Mount Gay Estate, leeward side {H. H. Smith). 



A series of examples of what appear to me to be identical with 

 this species were met with. 



This insect seems common and widely distributed ; it is clearly 



