MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 47 



moderately convex central clypeal area by an even V-shaped de- 

 pressed line which does not reach the margins; with a few sparse 

 and rather fine punctures ; irregularly and obsoletely sculptured be- 

 fore the impressed line, obsoletely strigulose behind it; gula de- 

 pressed, sutures not separately impressed except at base. Pronotum 

 quadrate; width to length as 3 to 2; midline smoothly shallowly 

 impressed; lateral sulci feeble, not more than one-third the length 

 of pronotum; tincly sparsely punctate and confusedly strigulose, 

 more regularly and densely at the sides. Elytra with striae finely 

 punctate, intervals each with an irregular row of fine punctures; sixth 

 stria represented by a vague impression near humerus or apically, 

 or with a few impressed punctures at basal third. Length, 3l^ to 

 7 mm. 



Type locality. — "Guadeloupe." Of striata Gray, "West Indies"; 

 of eT^thropus, "Cuba." 



Types. — Presumably in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stock- 

 holm. Of erythropus., presumably in the Zoologische Museum, Ber- 

 lin ; of striata Gray, unknown. 



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



Cuba: (Erichson, 1840; Fauvel, 1863, 1865; DuVal, 1857; Sharp, 1887, as 

 erythropus; Leng and Mutchler, 1914, as erythropus) , Guaiitauamo (Rams- 

 deu, in A. M. N. H.), Soledad (Darlington, in M. C. Z. and U. S. N. IM.), 

 P.uenos Aires, Trinidad Mountains (Darlington, in M. C. Z. ), Upper Ovando 

 River, Oriente (Darlington, in M. C. Z. and U. S. N. M.). 



Jamaica: (Gowdey, 192G, as crythropufi), Bath in St. Thoinus (Blackwolder 

 stations 892B, 426B), Liguanea Plain (Brues, in M. C. Z.), Whitfield Hall, 

 Blue Mountains (Darlington, in M. C. Z.). 



Hispaniola: (Fauvel, 18G3, 1865) ; Haiti, Kenskoff (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and 

 U.S.N.M.), Morne La Hotte foothills (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.) ; 

 DoMiNic.vN Rkpublic, .Jarabacoa (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Puerto Rico: (Fauvel. 1865; Leng and Mutchler, 1!)14, as erythropus; Wolcott, 

 1924, 1936), Utuado (Busck and Richmond, in U.S.N.M.), El Yunquc (Black- 

 welder station 351 A). 



[St. Bartholomew: (Erichson, 1840; Fauvel, 1865). Apparently an error for 

 Guadeloupe (see "Remarks.")] 



Guadeloupe: (Dalman, 1821, 1823). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwekler stations 207A, 207B, 211C, 211D, 444G). 



Grenada: (Blackweldor stations 132, 134, 137, 153B ; British Museum). 



ToLa2:o: (Blaokwelder station 116B). 



Trinidad: (Busck, in U.S.N.M.), Saii.s Souci ( I'.lackwelder station OSB), Man- 

 zanilla (Blackwelder stations 102, 103A, 104A), Moruga (Blackwelder sta- 

 tion 111), Caura Valley (Adamson, as Blackwelder station 444A), St. Augus- 

 tine (Weber, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



[South America: Venezuela (Scriba, 1855), Brazil (Bernha\icr and Schubert, 

 1010).] 



[Central America: Mexico (Bernhauer and Schubert, 1910).] 



Specimens examined. — One hundred twenty-one examples have 

 been examined: 10 in the British Museum, 31 in the United States 



