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collected by the late Dr. R. C. Shannon, myself and others 
having been taken casually in the course of other work. 
It seems certain that additional tabanids will be discovered 
in Trinidad. As Dr. Fairchild (in litt., 1951) aptly points 
out . . . a number of species are strict halophiles and 
should be searched for in mangrove swamps, salt marshes 
and along sea beaches . . . others have restricted habitats in 
mountain forest, some being quite strictly arboreal.” 
Country 
Approximate Area 
in Square Miles 
No. of Species of 
Tabanidae Recorded 
Panama 
33,800 
106 
Venezuela 
346,480 
88 
Honduras 
46,000 
22 
Cuba 
44,000 
12 
Hispaniola 
28,250 
17 
Puerto Rico 
3,500 
8 
Jamaica 
4,200 
10 
Trinidad 
1,750 
34 
Antigua 
108 
1 
Dominica 
304 
1 
St. Vincent 
130 
1 
Barbados 
166 
1 
Martinique 
380 
0 
Guadeloupe 
619 
0 
St. Lucia 
233 
0 
Grenada 
120 
0 
In Venezuela a comparatively small amount of collecting 
has been done, and the 88 tabanids known from that country 
probably bear little relation to the number actually occur- 
ring there. In Panama, with an area approximately one 
tenth that of Venezuela, Fairchild (1942, Ann. ent. Soc. 
Amer., 35: 441-474; 1951, ibid., 44:441-462) has recorded 
106 species from intensive collections largely confined to 
the central part of the Isthmus. 
The Lesser Antilles are a group of small oceanic islands 
disposed in an arc between the north-eastern corner of 
Venezuela and the eastern extremity of Puerto Rico. 
Guadeloupe and Martinique, the largest islands of the 
