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ous species are known from tropical or subtropical regions throughout 

 the world. 



1. ELEUSIS DARLINGTONI, new species 



DescHption. — Black, elytra flavous with margins piceous, especially 

 the apical, abdomen castaneous. Head irregularly quadrate, abruptly 

 narrowed a short distance behind the eyes, which are not very promi- 

 nent and are separated by more than their length from base; disk 

 flattened and sometimes biimpressed between the antennal ridges; 

 with very fine and very sparse punctures and with very distinct strigii- 

 lose ground sculpture. Pronotmn one-sixth wider than long, as wide 

 as head, base scarcely over one-half greatest width ; disk posteriorly 

 with a V-shaped impression; side margins strongly interrupted at 

 basal third by a setiferous ridge; punctation and sculpture as on 

 head. Elytra scarcely longer than broad, one-seventh wider apically 

 than near base, scarcely wider at base than pronotum; with very 

 sparse and exceedingly minute punctures obscured by coarse ground 

 sculpture. Abdomen above punctured as elytra and with feeble trans- 

 verse strigiUose sculpture. Length, 2i/2 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba, Soledad, near Cienf uegos, province of Santa 

 Clara. 



Types. — Holotype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, one paratype 

 in United States National Museum (No. 52477), collected in April 

 1936 by Dr. P. J. Darlington. 



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



Cuba: Soledad (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



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



Rernarks. — This species is quite distinct from other West Indian 

 Staphylinidae by its depressed parallel form and the single pair of 

 interruptions in the margins of the pronotum. It is distinct from the 

 few species of Eleims available to me from the Americas. These are 

 probably not accurately identified so are not listed here. 



I have received no record of its habits. 



XX. Genus PARALISPINUS Bernhauer 



Ancaeus Fauvel, 1865, p. 12, 60. (Not Risso, 1816.) 

 ParaUsi)i)ins Bernhauek, 1921, p. 67 (new name for Ancaeus). 

 AnacacuH Wolcott, 1930, p. 196 (niissi>elling). 



Genotype. — Of Ancaeus, A. megacephalm Fauvel (monobasic) ; of 

 Paralispinus., same (International Rules, Article 30, II, /). 



Diagnosis. — Body elongate, subcylindrical ; usually with ground 

 sculpture, glabrous ; head not margined but biimpressed in front ; distal 

 antennal segments transverse; labrum very short with angles pro- 

 duced: mandibles unarmed; segments of maxillary palpi subcylin- 



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