MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHTLINIDAE 121 



KEY TO WEST INDIAN SPECIES OF PSEUDOLISPENODES 



1. Elytron with one or more much larger isolated punctures 2 



Elytron without individual larger punctures 6 



2. Elytron with only one larger puncture 3 



Elytron with two or three larger punctures 5 



3. Elytron othei'wise impunctate 4 



Elytron finely punctate 6. tenellus 



4. Disk of pronotum with two distinct foveae at based third 7. foveolus 



Disk of pronotum not foveate basally 8. nigrifrons 



5. Pronotum moderately coarsely punctate 3. impar 



Pronotum very finely and irregularly punctate 9. guadeloupae 



6. Pronotum with longitudinal sculpture 7 



Pronotum with scaly sculpture 8 



7. Elytra with longitudinal sculpture 1. morug-ae 



Elytra with scaly sculpture 2. reversus 



8. Pronotum with four larger punctures in a square on disk 5. danforthi 



Pronotum without square of larger punctures 4. irregularis 



I. FSEUDOLISPINODES MORUGAE, new species 



Descnption. — Rufotestaceous. Head narrowly truncate in front; 

 tlie longitudinal impressions very feeble but not sharply separated 

 from the margin ; punctures moderately coarse, usually separated by 

 three times their diameter; finely and confusedly strigulose. Pro- 

 notum one-third wider than long, rounded at sides and narrowed from 

 anterior two-fifths; very feebly impressed at sides; disk somewhat 

 depressed on each side of the midline; very coarsely punctate, the 

 punctures elongate and more or less united longitudinally ; very finely 

 longitudinally strigulose. ScutelJuin with a few moderate punc- 

 tures. Elytron with discal stria represented only by an unimpressed 

 double series of punctures, occasionally rather crowded ; sutural stria 

 fine but impressed; coarsely and rather irregularly punctate, punc- 

 tures slightly elongate and separated by one to three times their length ; 

 very finely longitudinally strigulose. Abdominal sternites without 

 diagonal carinae at sides. Length, 2% mm. 



T7jpe locolity. — Trinidad, Herrara Estate near Basse Terre on road 

 from Princes Town to Moruga, Victoria County, ward of Moruga, 



Types. — Holotype, male, U.S.N.M. No. 52362, collected by me on 

 December 31, 1935; one para type, male, same data. 



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



Trinidad: Moruga (Blackwelder station 112A), St. Augustine (Weber, in M.C.Z. 

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



Specimens examined. — I have seen the two tj^cs in the United 

 States National Museum and four examples from the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology. 



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