MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLIN^DAE 99 



Type locality. — Puerto Rico, Guana jibo. 



T'y^e^-.—IIolotype, male, U.S.N.M. No. 52369, collected by H. L. 

 Dozier on April 2, 1936. 



Records. — The following is the only record known to me : 



Puerto Rico: Guana jibo (Dozier, in U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens exaniined. — The type is the only example seen. 



Remarks. — This specimen was at first thouglit to be an extreme de- 

 velopment of O. inchus. It differs, however, from that species not 

 only in (he form of the eighth sternite but also in the sculpture 

 of the head, pronotum, and elytra. I find very little variation in 

 these characters in a very large series of incisus and therefore think 

 it likely that this will prove to be distinct. I have seen specimens of 

 inctsus taken at Guanajibo but not at the same time as this specimen, 

 which was the onlj'' one sent in. 



I have no record of the habits of this species. 



6. OXYTELUS SCORPIO Fauvel 



Oxytelus scorpio Faua-el, 1904, p. 106. — Bernhaueb and Schubekt, 1911, p. 119.— 

 Lenq and Mtjtchueb, 1914, p. 404. — Scheekpeltz, 1933, p. 1103. 



Description. — Opaque piceous-black throughout. Head rather 

 quadrate, not narrowed behind the eyes for about their length, then 

 abruptly constricted; vertex with two feeble impressions near base 

 and two inside of the supra-antennal prominences; clypeal area 

 quadrate, set off by a feebly impressed line; with very dense and 

 very fine scaly sculpture throughout; with a setigerous puncture on 

 each antennal prominence and behind each eye; antennae with outer 

 segments transverse ; labrum twice as wide as long, broadly but feebly 

 eniarginate. angles prominent; mandibles short; maxillary palpi long, 

 second and third segments enhirged, fourth slender and nearly twice 

 as long as third ; gular sutures converging on constricted part, united 

 and broadly Y-shaped in front. Pronotum nearly one-half wider 

 than long, one-twentieth wider than head; subsemicircular, but pos- 

 terior angles just discernible; surface vaguely depressed near middle 

 of sides, and with three feeble longitudinal impressions on disk, form- 

 ing four indefinite ridges; throughout with fine and very dense scaly 

 sculpture. Elytra one-fifth wider than pronotum, one-fourth wider 

 than long, posterior angles narrowly rounded ; with fine and dense 

 scaly sculpture, but scales appearing to be arranged somewhat longi- 

 tudinally. Abdomen vaguely submuricately sculptured. Male, 

 eighth sternite narrowdy and sliallowly emarginate at middle, the 

 emargination filled by translucent membrane. Female^ eighth ster- 

 nite feebly lobed at center. Length, li/4 to 1% mm. 



Type locality. — "Saint-Domingue, dans les tabacs importes" 

 ( = Dominican Republic). 



