112 Psyche [December 
Trepobates pictus Uhler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1894, 
No. XV, p. 213. 
Trepobates comitialis Drake and Harris, Fla. Ent., XII, 
1928, p. 7; Bui. Brook. Ent., XXVII, 1932, p. 117. 
The type of Kallistometra tayloi Kirk. ( $ , St. Andrew, 
C. B. Taylor, Sept., 1898) in the Kirkaldy collection, U. 
S. National Museum has been examined. It is a typical 
species of Trepobates Uhler and belongs to the group hav- 
ing the posterior margin of the mesonotum in the apterous 
form subtruncate and not produced at the middle. The 
type specimen is badly mutilated, having the appendages 
all wanting on the right side, the last two segments of 
the left antennae missing and also the tarsi of the second 
and third legs. As the data on the locality, date, and col- 
lector labels and type specimen in the Kirkaldy collection 
of the U. S. National Museum agree with the original de- 
scription (except length of legs) , there seems to be no ques- 
tion regarding identity of the type specimen of Kallistome- 
tra taylori; furthermore, the labels are written in Kir- 
kaldy’s own handwriting. After carefully studying this 
type (genotype) and numerous other examples the writers 
feel that the genus Kallistometra Kirkaldy must be sup- 
pressed and considered identical with the genus Trepobates 
Uhler. Trepobates comitialis D. & H. should be treated as 
a synonym of taylori. 
In the Kirkaldy collection there are also two specimens 
( $ and $ ) of Metrobates tumidus Anderson (=Metrobates 
cubanus D. & H.) labeled in Kirkaldy’s handwriting “co- 
type,” “Jamaica, C. B. Taylor.” These specimens were not 
mentioned in the original description. 
Several specimens are also in the Museum collection from 
Cuba, Ch. Wright; S. Domingo, P. R. Uhler; Mandeville, 
Jamaica, A. E. Wight; and Martinique. These specimens 
are all apterous (some nymphs) and in rather poor condi- 
tion of preservation. 
