MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 275 



Type locality. — Cuba, Loma del Gato, Cobre Range, Oriente Prov- 

 ince, elevation about 3,000 feet. 



Types. — Holotype and one i)aratype, males, in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology; one paratype, male, in the United States 

 National Museum (No. 52514) ; collected on July 3-7, 193G, by Dr. 

 P. J. Darlington. 



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



Cuba: Loma del Gato (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Pico Turauino 

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



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



Remarks. — This species is distinguished by its small eyes, by the 

 obsolete punctuation of the pronotum, and by the male characters. It 

 is also unique in the enlargement of the head behind the eyes. It 

 probably belongs in the subgenus Medon s. str. 



I have received no record of its habits. 



6. MEDON SCHWARZI, new species 



Scioparus carihaeus Bierig, MS. 



Description. — Rufotestaceous. Head one-seventh wider than long, 

 rather indefinitely emarginate behind, with angles moderately 

 I'ounded; eyes small, at about twice their length from base; labrum 

 with a small median emargination and a pair of more feeble emargi- 

 nations between this and the sides, without denticles; giilar sutures 

 moderately close, most approximate along middle, diverging at both 

 ends; with very sparse umbilicate punctures separated by one to 

 three times their diameter, with dense scaly ground sculpture. 

 Pronotum ahnost as wide as head, as long as wide; sides feebly con- 

 verging and evenly rounded into base; with an impunctate but 

 sculptured median area, not channelled; with punctures and sculp- 

 ture as on head. Elytra not distinctly punctate, surface uneven and 

 with indistinct setigerous tubercles moderately dense ; without ground 

 sculpture. Abdomen very minutely punctured and pubescent; 

 ground sculpture indistinct. MaUy eighth sternite with a small 

 rounded emargination about three times as wide as long. Female^ 

 sternites not modified. Length, 4^2 nim. 



Type locality. — Cuba, Cayamas, 15 miles west-northwest of Cien- 

 fuegos, province of Santa Clara. 



Types.— Koloiy^Q, female, U.S.N.M. No. 52404, collected by E. A. 

 Schwarz on February 26 of 1902, 1903, or 1904; one paratype in 

 the United States National Museum and two in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, taken in August 1932 and 1934 at Soledad, 

 near Cienfuegos, Cuba, by B. B. Leavitt and P. J. Darlington. 

 (Two "cotypes" of S. carihaeus are in the United States National 

 Museum, through the kindness of Sr. Bierig.) 



