MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 111 



sulci behind aiitl between the eyes on each side; slightly elevated 

 from the center of vertex to supraantennal prominences ; postclypeus 

 produced in two ensiform horns, generally as long at least as dis- 

 tance between them; gular sutures entirely obliterated in front of 

 the point of union ; eighth abdominal sternite with a large circular 

 depression bordered apically by a short carinate ridge and an abrupt 

 short incision of the margin. Female^ head with only two sulci on 

 each side, inner ones indefinite ; vertex without ridges ; clypeus with- 

 out horns; eighth abdominal sternite feebly lobed at center. Length, 

 ]i/2 to 2l^mm. 



Type locality. — "Caracas in Columbia" (= Venezuela). 



Types. — In either the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische 

 Museum, Berlin. 



Records. — The following are the records known to me : 



Cuba: (DuVal, 1857; Chevrolat aud Fauvel, 1863; Leng and Mutchler, 1914, as 

 cxiguus). 



Jamaica: Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377), Milk River (Blackwelder 

 station 41.5), Trinilyviile (Blackwelder station 428), Santa Cruz (Black- 

 welder station 421), Troy (Blackwelder station 409), Newport (Blackwelder 

 station 412A). 



Hispaniola: Haiti. Trouin (Blackwelder station 24B) ; Dominican Republic, 

 Moca (Blackwelder station 40), San Jos6 de las Matas (Blackwelder sta- 

 tion 38), Puerto Plata (Blackwelder station 36), Santiago (Blackwelder 

 stations 38, 40). 



Puerto Rico: San Juan (Blackwelder stations 345, 353B), Humacao (Black- 

 welder station .54), Ponce (Dozier, in U.S.N.M.), Hormigwros (U.S.N.M.). 



Antigua: (Blackwelder station 285B). 



Guadeloupe: Bas.se Terre (Blackwelder stations 69, 75; A.M.N.H.). 



Dominica: (Blackwelder stations 257B, 258). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 212, 228). 



Barbados: (Blackwelder station 194). 



St. Vincent: (Blackwelder stations 17.5, 179, 185; Britisli Museum). 



Grenadines: Carriacou (Blackwelder station 146). 



Grenada: (Britisli Museum). 



(Trinidad: Port of Spain (Blackwelder station 115).) 



South America: Vexezt'pxa (Erichson, 1840; Sharp, 1887), Commuia (Casey, 

 1886), Argentina (Scheerpeltz, 19.33). 



Central America: Guatemala, Panama, Mexico (Sharp, 1887; U.S.N.M.), Mexico 

 (Casey, 1886; Villada, 1901; U.S.N.M.). 



North America: Texas (Casey, 1886; U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens examined. — Besides several series from Central America, 

 T have examined 21 specimens from the "West Indies in the British 

 Museum, G in the American iVIuseum of Natural History, 3 in the 

 United States National Museum, and 57 collected by me in 1935-37. 



Hem/irks. — Although I have seen no examples from Cuba, I am 

 confident that exiguus DuVal is a synonym of spicuhis. I am 

 unable to separate my series from Jamaica to Trinidad from the 

 spicidus Erichson as understood by Sharp from Ccnti-al America. 



