MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 129 



Natural History, 31 in the United States National Museum, and 1 

 collected by me in 1935-37. 



Remarks. — The specimens from Montserrat and St. Lucia appear 

 to be identical with the Cuban ones. I was unable to separate the 

 type of sparsepimctatus from specimens that appear identical with the 

 types of nigrifrcms. 



My specimen was taken from under bark of a log in the forest. Tlie 

 Schwarz specimens were taken under bark of a silk cotton tree. 



9. PSEUDOLISPINODES GUADELOUPAE, new species 



Description. — Rufotestaceous. Head narrowly truncate anteriorly; 

 with two very feeble depressions in front, not truly longitudinal but 

 not sharply delimited anteriorly; punctures very fine but irregularly 

 spaced; without trace of ground sculpture. Pronotmn nearly one- 

 fourth wider than long; feebly rounded at sides, emarginate poste- 

 riorly; lateral depressions obsolescent; punctures as on head; 

 without trace of ground sculpture. Scutellum smooth, shining. 

 Elytron impunctate except for two or three large punctif orm depres- 

 sions in inner basal half ; sutural stria distinctly impressed ; without 

 trace of discal stria ; without trace of ground sculpture. Abdominal 

 sternites without diagonal carinae. Length, 1% to 2 mm. 



Type locality. — Guadeloupe, Gourbeyre. 



Types. — Holotype and one paratype in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, and one paratype in the United States National 

 Museum (No. 52536). 



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

 Guadeloupe: Gourbeyre (A.M.N.H. and U.S.N.M.)- 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the three types. 



Remarks. — This species is very distinct among all I have seen by its 

 extremely depressed form, as well as by its smooth and shining integu- 

 ments. The paratype in the United States National Museum has 

 the head somewhat smashed. 



These specimens were purchased from a French dealer in 1916 by 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



XIV. Genus LISPINUS Erichson 



Lispinus Erichson, 1840, p. 828. 

 Liopinus Kraatz, 1874, p. 290. 



Genotype. — L. attenuatus Erichson (designated by Duponchel, 

 1841). 



Diagnosis. — Body elongate, subdepressed, glabrous; head rounded 

 and usually feebly margined in front; gula very narrow, sutures 

 obsolete before the pits ; antennae not so long as head and pronotum ; 

 mandibles unarmed, not prominent; palpi short and stout, fourth seg- 

 ment of maxillary much longer than third; pronotum more or less 



