192 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXXVII, 



Desbordes, H. Bull. Soc. Entom. France, 1914, p. 234. 



Ehlers, W. Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, XI, 1883, p. 36. 



Fleutiaux, Ed. In letters, and Liste des Coleopteres de la Guadeloupe par Fleutiaux 

 et Salle, Ann. Soc. Entom. France, 6th ser., IX, 1889, pp. 351-484; supplements 

 by A. Raffray and A. Grouvelle: ibid., LXXI, 1902, pp. 756-769; ibid., LXXVII, 

 1908, pp. 33-64; ibid., LXXI, 1912, pp. 289-312. Revision des Trixagidse, 

 Melasidse et Elateridse des Antilles, ibid., LXXX, 1911-1912, pp. 235-264. 



Grieve, Symington. Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, IX, 1913-1914. 



Grouvelle, A. Bull. Soc. Entom. France, 1916, pp. 84-87. 



Gundlach, Juan. Annates de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, serie II, 

 tomo secundo, 1894, pp. 601-658 (Fauna Puerto Riquena, pp. 287-344). This 

 work was inaccessible to us at the time the Preliminary List was written; it 

 contains a large number of Porto Rico records. Some of the species cited have, 

 however, never been described and are not included by us. 



Hopkins, A. D. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Report 

 No. 99, 1915. 



Horn, Walther. Genera Insectorum, Coleoptera, Fascicule 82, a, b, c. 



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Kerremans, Ch. Monographic des Buprestides, I-VII, pt. 8, 1906-1914. 



Kleine, R. Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., 1908; Ent. Blatter, VI, 1910. 



Lameere, A. Coleopterorum Catalogus, pt. 52, 1913. 



Leng, C. W. and Mutchler, A. J. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. History, XXXV, pp. 681- 

 698. 



Mann, W. M. Psyche, XXII, 1915, pp. 163, 164. 



MarshaU, Guy A. H. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XVIII, 8th ser., 1916, pp. 450-469. 



Marshall, Rev. T. A. Trans. Entom. Soc. London, 1878, Proc. pp. 27-38. 



Mutchler, A. J. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. History, XXXIII, 1914, pp. 345, 346. 



Putzeys, J. Stett. Ent. Zeitung, 1878, p. 25. 



Quaintance, A. L. Proc. Entom. Soc. of Washington, XV, 1913, pp. 75-82. 



Robinson, Col. Wirt. In letters. 



Schwarz, E. A. In letters. 



Shoemaker, Ernest. A series collected in St. Thomas by Clarence Shoemaker, which 

 has been at our disposal for inspection, has furnished some records. 



Spaeth, F. Coleopterorum Catalogus, part 62, 1914. 



U. S. N. M. Specimens in the United States National Museum, identified by E. A. 

 Schwarz; records copied by permission of Dr. Leland O. Howard, Honorary 

 Curator, Dept. of Insects. 



Urich, F. W. Trinidad Field Nat. Club, I, 1892. 



Wickham, H. F. In tetters. 



The statement in the Preliminary List " total absence of the Silphidse", 

 requires modification. While true of Silpha and Nccrophorus and of Bury- 

 ing Beetles in the sense we intended, it is not true of all Silphidae, as that 

 family is composed in the Henshaw Check List. There is a species of 

 Aglyptonotus in the British Museum from St. Vincent and Grenada (Ent. 

 Mont. Mag., LI., p: 121). Mr. Schwarz has collected a species of Aglyp- 

 tonotus at Cayamas, Cuba, and the National Museum contains specimens 

 of a Ptomophagus or Choleva from Porto Rico. These are certainties; there 



