MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 143 



Type locality. — Trinidad, Eiver Estate near Diego Martin, 8 miles 

 northwest of Port of Spain. 



Types. — Holotype and seven paratypes, U.S.N.M. No. 523G6, col- 

 lected by me on December 27, 1935. One paratype has been deposited 

 in the collection of Dr. M. Cameron and one in the British Museum. 



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

 Trinidad: Diego Martin (Blaekwelder station 109B). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the 10 specimens men- 

 tioned above. 



Remarks. — This species seems to be readily distinguishable from 

 the preceding by its not costate elytra and integuments without 

 ground sculpture. 



It was collected from under bark of a rotting immortelle log. 



2. GLYPTOMA GUADELUPENSIS (Wendeler) 



Calocertis guadelupcnsis Wendelkb, 1930, p. 182.— Scheerpeltz, 1933, p. 1021. 



Description. — Rufocastaneous. Head quadrate; as wide as pro- 

 notum, as long as wide ; sides behind the eye forming a small tooth ; 

 finely strigulose in front, otherwise smooth; with two strong punc- 

 tures between the antennal prominences; vertex with three pairs of 

 punctures ; at the sides behind the antennal prominences with a large 

 puncture in a longitudinal channel. Pronotum as long as wide, 

 widest in front, narrowed slightly to tip, but by half its width from 

 the middle posteriorly, sides emarginate posteriorly ; disk behind the 

 middle with a strong transverse impression of two deep coarse punc- 

 tures, rest of surface with large but somewhat weak punctures. 

 Elytra as long as pronotum but somewhat wider, feebly wider posteri- 

 orly ; with prominent humeral angles; each with a sharp costa, which 

 at tip recurves outv/ardly to unite with another costa that arises at 

 the humerus; strongly longitudinally strigulose, and with strong 

 shallow sparse punctures. Ahdomen strigulose; each tergite with 

 a transverse row of large punctiform impressions. Length, 3 mm. 

 (From Wendeler.) 



Type locality. — Guadeloupe, Trois Rivieres, Basse Terre. 



Types. — In the Museum fiii- Naturkuncle zu Berlin and the collec- 

 t ion of Herr Duf au. 



Records. — Only the original record is known to me: 



Guadeloupe: Basse Terre (Wendeler, 1930). 



Specimens examined. — I have not been able to examine any ex- 

 amples of this species. 



Remarks. — Said to be similar to G. hirtic&rnis Sharp. Its habits 

 were not recorded. 



