MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 179 



a few tuberculate setigerous punctures. Anterior face of front tibia 

 with numerous scattered setigerous punctures. Length, 9 to 10 mm. 



Type locality. — Southeastern Haiti, Furcy, La Selle Range, elevation 

 about 5,000 feet. 



Types. — Holotype (M.C.Z. No. 20235) and one para type in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



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



Hispaniola: Haiit, Furcy (Darlington, 1937), Tardieu (Darlington, 1937). 



Specimens exa7nin£d. — I have seen only the paratype from the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Remarhs. — This species is only feebly distinguished from salutator^ 

 but I am unable to form an opinion as to its true status for lack of 

 material. 



I find no record of its habits. 



5. OSORIUS SALUTATOR Darlington 



Osorius salutator Dablington, 1937, pp. 286, 290, 291, 292. 



Descj'iption. — Black. Head four-fifths as wide as pronotum; eyes 

 slightly prominent; clypeus truncate, coarsely crenate, angles not 

 very prominent ; labrum very slightly emarginate, alutaceous ; antennal 

 segments not transverse ; with a few coarse punctures and sparse finer 

 ones obscured by dense alutaceous ground sculpture. Pronotwm 

 widest at anterior third, moderately narrowed behind, one-fourth 

 wider than long, base nearly as wide as apex; margin not greatly 

 expanded near base ; with scarcely a trace of midline ; with very sparse 

 fine punctures and dense alutaceous ground sculpture. Elytra only 

 slightly narrower than pronotum or shorter than wide, narrowed to 

 base and to apex from apical third; humeral margins feeble; with a 

 few large setigerous punctures; coriaceous. Abdomen feebly aluta- 

 ceous except at apex, above with only a few tuberculate setigerous 

 punctures. Anterior face of front tibia with numerous scattered 

 setigerous punctures. Length, 10 to 121/2 mm. 



Type locality. — Southeastern Haiti, La Visite and vicinity, La Selle 

 Range, 5,000 to 7,000 feet elevation. 



Types. — Holotype (M.C.Z. No. 20234) and four paratypes in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology ; one paratype in the United States 

 National Museum (No. 51247). 



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



Hispaniola: Haiti, La Visits (Darlington, 1937; M.C.Z.; U.S.N.M.), Mount 

 Basil (Darlington, 1937). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen one paratype in the United 

 States National Museum and one paratype and two other specimens 

 fi'om the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



