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Grutas de Cacahuamilpa and Grutas del Mogote, Guerrero.Liodema sp. nr. kirschi Bates is a frequentlycollected species in the caves of the Sierra de El Abra,San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas. Rhinandrus ?elongatusHom was reported by Pearse (1938b) from severalcaves in Yucatan. Zophobas atratus (Fabricius),known from caves in the Sierra de El Abra, San LuisPotosi, is otherwise known only from a cave in Venezue1a.For the cave localities of several species oftenebrionid in Mexico see Fig. 84.Family TrogidaeThis family of beetles is frequently collected asguanophiles m Central Texas. The only record forMexican caves is of Omorgus carinatus (Loomis) fromCueva de la Siquita, Durango. It is probably a guanophilein this large bat cave.Order SiphonapteraFamily HystrichopsyllidaeThe only species of this family reported fromMexican caves is the bat flea Anomiopsyllus traubiBarrera from Cueva de Belen, Hidalgo (Barrera,1951).Family IschnopsyllidaeThree species of bat flea of the family Ischnopsyllidaehave been taken from guano in Mexican caves.GUATEMALA/ ..//r,.... r"'.-"Fig. 84.-Distribution of cavemicole beetles of the family Tenebrionidae: 1, Eleodes hupilabris; 2, Cryptoglossa mexicanamexicana; 3, E. glabricollis; 4, E. rugosa; 5, E. sallei; 6, E. spinolai.233