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Show 198 PROF. P. R. UHLER ON T H E [Mar. 6, specimens from the "West Indies agree in all respects with the description given by Mr. Beuter. This species is now known to me through specimens from Venezuela, Central America, and the Antilles. Several specimens were taken at Balthazar and on the Grand Etang, in August and the early part of September. They were captured while flying, at sunset, and at various elevations from 500 to 1300 feet above the sea. PTENIDIOPHYES, Beuter. PTENIDIOPHYES MIRABILIS, Beuter. Ptenidiophyes mirabilis, Beuter, Monogr. Ceratocomb. p. 26, no. 1, fig. 15. Only three specimens were secured: one on the Chantilly estate, early in August, on a hillside, in the piles of decaying weeds; and the others were found on the Grand Etang, August 9, at an elevation of 1900 feet above the sea, where they were beaten from masses of roots and decaying leaves. The type was taken in Brazil. ANTHOCORID^E. LASIOCHILUS, Beuter. 1. LASIOCHILUS PALLIDULUS, Beuter. Lasiochilus pallidulus, Beuter, Monogr. Anthoc, Acta Soc. Fenn. xiv. 1884, p. 571. Many specimens were collected at various points on the island. At Balthazar they were taken, April 7, at an elevation of 250 feet above the sea, while flying over open places at sunset. On August 7 they were taken at the same place from vines and bushes. At the Grand Etang they were found, September 15, at an elevation of 1900 feet, among piles of weeds. Others were taken on the Mount Gay estate. 2. LASIOCHILUS YARICOLOR, sp. nov. Oblong-oval, much less robust, narrower and more tender than L. pallidulus, Beut., fusco-testaceous, pale pubescent, paler beneath, and with the head, pronotum, and base of scutellum rufo-piceous. Head highly polished, shorter than the pronotum, with the eyes black, large, and extending beyond the width of the front of the pronotum ; antennae moderately slender, pubescent, testaceous, sometimes a little dusky, and darker on the ends of the joints, a little longer than the head, prothorax, and scutellum united, the second joint stout, a little longer than the head, slightly thickened at tip; rostrum pale testaceous, reaching behind the anterior coxae, the basal joint thick, barely reaching to the eye. Pronotum polished, with slender transverse wrinkles ; the collum narrow but distinct; the anterior lobe convexly elevated, with an impressed point on the middle ; the lateral margin feebly sinuated behind, but strongly contracted in front; the posterior |
