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and apical area of elytra brown. Head semicircular behind eyes; 
prothorax evenly swollen in profile at level of widest portion. 
Head 42/45,39; eyes prominent, 17/13, 27 apart, 20 from base. 
Disc evenly convex, punctures ca. 4 apart, small but distinct on 
front, very fine behind; setae ca. 1, decumbent, almost invisible, 
tactile setae erect, 7, fine. Antennae 105 long, 7 thick at segment 10, 
gradually thickened, with moderately conspicuous suberect curved 
setae ca. 4 and erect, nearly straight tactile setae ca. 7. Prothorax 
47/18,36,25,28; portion anterior to strong basal impressed line 
almost globular, rising 1 1 above line from top of base to top of 
strong collar. Elytra 131/50,67; humeri well defined, omoplates 
slightly swollen; postbasal transverse impression well indicated but 
with punctures and pubescence like rest of elytra; punctures very 
fine, ca. 5 apart, setae decumbent, fine, ca. 1, barely visible, tactile 
setae erect, nearly straight, 11. Mesosternum extremely smooth, 
flat, with lateral expansion 15 wide and reaching almost to epi- 
pleura of elytra, bearing a fringe of slightly curved setae ca. 1 1 long, 
partly visible from above, the lateral and posterolateral setae lap- 
ping onto sides of elytra and mesepisterna. Metasternum, abdomen 
and legs with sparse, decumbent setae ca. 4 long, slightly denser on 
tibiae. Visible sternum 5 with disc evenly convex, its apex shallowly 
emarginate and bearing several long setae; 6 ca. 11 wide, divided 
into almost parallel, deeply separated lobes, which are deeply 
grooved mesally. Last visible tergum thin, nearly flat. Wings ap- 
parently absent. Cuticle very translucent, some parts almost 
transparent. 
Records: Hispaniola: rep. dom.: Jarabacoa (530m, 23.1.1972), 
and Boca Chica (10m, 6. X. 1971), both on single $ specimens, col- 
lected by J. & S. Klapperich, and in the Basel Museum. These 
specimens agree in general with the original description, which may 
have suffered from being translated from German into Italian, and 
finally from my translation to English. The original figure is not 
helpful. Professor M. Princippi informs me that there is a specimen 
of russoi in the Menozzi Collection at the Istituto di Entomologia of 
the Universita di Bologna. This must be the holotype, since the 
species was described from a single specimen. 
I am leaving russoi in Anthicus for lack of a better place to put it. 
The mandibles and gonopore armature are different from Acanthi- 
nus, and the mesothorax differently designed from Formicilla. In 
