MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 39 



"Remarks" or included in brackets as doubtful records. One source 

 of these records has been found somewhat unreliable. Many records 

 of ''Siidamerika'' in the Junk Catalog should be changed to St. 

 Thomas, St. John, or Puerto Rico. These are principally Erichson's 

 species, and the error was in the translating of his localities. 



The principal sources of West Indian records in the literature (be- 

 sides the Junk Catalogs) are the works of Erichson, DuVal, Fauvel, 

 Leng and Mutchler, Cameron, Wolcott, and Bierig. Dr. Cameron 

 and Sr. Bierig have contributed the largest number of new species 

 all within the past 30 years. 



TERMINOLOGY 



Some terms have been employed in this paper that liave not com- 

 monly been used before in the Staphylinidae, A number of these are 

 used and defined in a previous paper on the morphology of the 

 Staphylinidae (Blackwelder, 1936). Others, which may not be en- 

 tirely self-explanatory, include the following: The segments of the 

 antennae have usually been referred to in the literature as "joints"; 

 this is herein used only for the articulation between the segments, 

 as "the outer segments are pubescent beyond the third joint," that is, 

 the fourth to eleventh segments. The base and basal angles of the 

 head are described in relation to a line tangent to the middle of the 

 base; if the base touches this line at two points, it is said to be emar- 

 ginate; the distance of the eyes from the base is measured to this 

 line. Margining of the abdomen implies the presence of parater- 

 gites, either singly or in pairs, but these may be present in unmar- 

 gined species as well. 



The words punctation, tuberculation, and sculpture are used as 

 entirely separate and distinct. Sculpture is restricted to the minute 

 reticulations, striations, aciculations, and unevennesses of the surface 

 seldom visible at all with magnifications less than X30 (on specimens 

 of 5 mm. length or less). Tuberculi may be structurally related 

 to punctures (or may bear punctures) but are always elevated above 

 the surface. Umbilicate punctui-es have an obvious flat bottcmi to 

 the depression with a smaller punctule at the middle (often 

 setiferous). 



The terms spine, horn, and tooth are applied only to immovable 

 processes of the bodywall, whereas seta, hair, setula, fimbria, calcar, 

 and spur are used for movable processes — all morphologically setae. 

 The word spiimle as used in Osormn refers to processes that grade 

 from large setae into tubercles bearing setae and into ordinary 

 spines. 



As used in tliis bulletin, the woi-ds dung, manure, and excrement 

 refer to com^ dung, horse manure, and human excrement, respectively. 



