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individuals brown, with slightly paler legs, antennae and palpi. 
Cuban individuals with pale marking at base and apex of elytra. 
Moderately coarsely punctured. 
Holotype 2.34 mm. Head 44/51,47; eyes 19/ 15, 35 apart, 20 
from base, which is truncate with a slight impression at midline, the 
temporal angles narrowly rounded; disc slightly flattened, smooth, 
with strong punctures ca. 4 apart except on midline of front; setae 
decumbent. Antennae ca. 97 long, 7 thick at segment 10, which is 
slightly longer than thick. Prothorax 49/ 16,40,31, with even punc- 
tures denser than on head, ca. 2 apart, about as wide as intervals. 
Elytra 141/56,73, with feeble omoplates, as deeply punctured as 
head and prothorax, punctures ca. 3 apart; setae decumbent, 8, 
slightly curved; tactile setae 4, suberect. Underside of thorax with 
punctures slightly smaller than above; front part of prosternum, 
anterior to coxae, smooth in front half, with some punctures and 
suberect setae in back half. First visible abdominal sternum finely 
punctured, rest punctulate. Visible sternum 5 with its apex gently 
convex, as in $; 6 with no indication of even an emargination; last 
visible tergum shiny, its edge beaded, almost concealed by the ter- 
gum before it, which is densely short-pubescent and has an almost 
evenly rounded apex, as in 9- 
Holotype: Jamaica: Kingston (no date, Chapin & Black- 
welder) in USNM. Paratypes: Jamaica: Kingston (C & B, 4; P J D, 
1), Morant Bay, Gordon Town, Trinityville, Bath St. Thomas, Blue 
Mts. (nr. 4500', P.J.D.). Paratypes in USNM, MCZ and FGW col- 
lection. Not designated paratypes: Cuba: Oriente Prov.: coast below 
Pico Turquino (1); Soledad nr. Cienfuegos (2). Hispaniola: Rep. 
Dom.: Constanza (19)- The Constanza specimen has very reduced 
dark elytral markings, with rounded posterior emargination. Even 
teneral Jamaican specimens have uniformly colored elytra. 
Anthicus russoi Krekich 
Fig. 5, 22. 
Anthicus russoi Krekich in Menozzi 1930: 93 (type-locality: Moca, Rep. Domini- 
cana). 
Stricticomus russoi: Bonadona 1981: 275. 
(5, Jarabacoa, 2.20 mm, very smooth, shiny, appearing somewhat 
glabrous except for long, erect tactile setae; body and basal 36 of 
elytra pale rufescent (abdomen brown in another specimen); humeri 
