1935] 
West Indian Carabidse 
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tarsi not modified ; last ventral with 1 ( $ ) or 2 ( $ ) setae 
each side. Length 3. 8-5.0; width 1. 6-2.0 mm. 
Haiti: holotype $ (M. C. Z. no. 22032) and 11 para- 
types from Mt. La Hotte, on and near summit (probably not 
below 7,000 ft.), Oct. 16-17 ; in leaf mold, moss, and rotting 
wood in damp forest. 
Similar in color to P. schwarzi Dari., but differing from 
it, and I think from all other known Phloeoxena, by the 
loss of wings and consequent modification of elytra. 
Apenes apterus n. sp. 
Form as usual in Apenes s. s., sinuata group ; moderately 
shining purplish bronze, humeri with poorly defined brown 
spots, outer margin of elytra vaguely and irregularly 
brownish; lower surface piceous; appendages brown. Head 
large, about 6/7 width prothorax, but with eyes less promi- 
nent than usual ; front finely alutaceous, finely and sparsely 
punctulate, not strigulose; antennae rather short, middle 
joints scarcely longer than wide. Prothorax % wider than 
long, subcordate ; sides arcuate anteriorly, virtually straight 
and converging or slightly sinuate before posterior angles ; 
latter either almost obliterated or very minutely subpromi- 
nent; disk finely alutaceous, without evident punctulation, 
and with faint, sparse, transverse wrinkles. Elytra 
wider than prothorax; humeri about as in winged species; 
striae moderate, not punctate; scutellar stria present but 
rather variable ; intervals slightly convex, lightly alutaceous, 
3rd with 2 conspicuous punctures, at about 1/3 and 2/3 of 
length. Metepisterna with outer edges about i/2 longer 
than anterior, shorter than in winged species ; inner wings 
atrophied. Last joint labial palpus $ not nearly so dilated 
as usual in genus, scarcely wider than in 9 , with apical 
much shorter than inner margin ; last ventral with 2 setse 
each side in both sexes. Length (to apex elytra) 6. 5-7.0; 
width 2.5 mm. or slightly more. 
Jamaica: holotype $ (M. C. Z. no. 22033), and 2 $ $ 
paratypes from main range Blue Mts., 5,000-7,000 ft., Aug. 
17-19; under stones along the trail in the forest. 
Differs from the other West Indian species of the sinuata 
group ( delicata Dari, etc.) in lacking a subapical pale 
fascia, and in the atrophy of the wings. 
