74 Psyche. [June-Sept. 
7. Phanocerus hubbardi Schaeffer 
Journ. New York Ent. Soc. 19, 1911, p. 119. 
Jamaica and Haiti: described from the former without 
more definite locality. I have before me one $ topotype 
(same data as type) borrowed from the United States 
National Museum and 12 $ , 11 $ from the northeastern 
foothills of the Massif de la Hotte, Haiti, 2-4,000 ft., Oct. 
10-24, 1934, taken on water weeds, stones, and logs at water 
level in various rivers and brooks. These specimens are 
much darker than the Jamaican one, perhaps because of 
their greater freshness, and have the elytra slightly more 
strongly punctate. They are not so punctate as in Ph. clavi- 
cornis Sharp from Devil’s River, Texas ( $ $ $ , det. Schaef- 
fer, borrowed from U. S. N. M.), however. The females 
in the Haitian series have the prothorax slightly more elon- 
gate, with sides more sinuate, than the males, so that I had 
separated the sexes even before examining the genitalia. 
A somewhat similar sexual difference exists in clavicornis, 
but not in the following species. The S genitalia of all 
these species seem to be indistinguishable. 
8. Phanocerus helmoides n. sp. (PL III, fig. 4) 
Subparallel, rather elongate, convex ; piceous brown, with 
fine, short, close pubescence ; appendages brown, tibise, 
tarsi, and antennal club darker. Head 2/3 width prothorax. 
Prothorax subquadrate, % (more or less) wider than long, 
only slightly more narrowed in front than behind; sides 
slightly or moderately arcuate, straight or slightly sinuate 
before base and apex; posterior angles right, anterior 
slightly obtuse but moderately prominent; explanate side 
margins conspicuous in anterior 1/3; apex arcuate; base 
strongly, sinuately lobed before scutellum; disk convex, 
with fine median longitudinal line, fine puncture each side 
of middle before base, rather fine groove each side from 
base 1/6 from side forward and then outward to just be- 
hind apical angle. Elytra slightly wider than prothorax, 
strial punctures rather fine, especially apically, more as in 
hubbardi than clavicornis. Length 2. 3-2.8 by 1. 1-1.2 mm. 
Haiti: holotype $ (M. C. Z. no. 21,789) and 6 <£ , 6 $ 
paratypes (pair in U. S. N. M.) from the northeastern 
