1927] 
Four New Helmidce from Cuba 
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which is longer in smithi. The two other species are both from 
Jamaica collected by H. G. Hubbard, and are very close to the 
species described above as minima and filiformis , of which they 
seem to be at best no more than geographical varieties. The 
form near minima is represented by a single specimen, 1 . 5 mm. 
long, which seems almost exactly typical in shape and sculpture, 
though the latter is slightly obscured; that near filiformis, how- 
ever, seems subspecifically distinct. 
Helmis filiformis jamaicensis n. subsp. 
Almost precisely as in typical filiformis except as follows: 
the color above is practically uniform, ranging from dull rufous 
in the holotype to piceous in the darker paratype. In the latter 
there are vague rufous areas near the humeri, but these do not 
suggest the straw-colored elytral ground of typical filiformis. 
The median longitudinal groove of the pronotum is slightly 
finer and not as abbreviated as in the .Cuban form. The size is 
slightly greater, the three specimens being between 1.9 and 2.0 
mm. in length. The holotype and two paratypes belong to the 
collection of the National Museum. The type is No. 40350 in 
the collection of the IT. S. National Museum. 
