MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPITi-LINlDAE 401 



13. From Cuba 10. caribaens 



From Jamaica 11. silvaticus 



14. Prouotal punctures very coarse and deep 13. trinitatis 



Pronotal punctures moderate 12. waterhousei 



1. PHILONTHUS HEPATICUS Erichson 



PTiilonthua Tiepaticus Erichson, 1840, p. 451. 



Pliilonthus vilis Erichson, 1840, p. 451. 



Philonthus orphanus Erichson, 1840, p. 452. 



Philonthus nanus Mklsheimer, 1846, p. 36. (Not GravenLorst, 18C6. ) 



Philonthus cinctutus Melsheimeb, 1846, p. 37. 



Philonthus pallcolus Mexsheimek, 1846, p. 37. 



Staphylinus rufipennis Solieb, 1849, p. 317. (Not Fabricius, 1801; not Graveii- 



horst, 1802.) 

 Philojitlius varicolor Boheman, 1858, p. 29. (Not variicolor Nordmann, 1837.) 

 Philonthus pyropterus Kraatz, 1859a, p. 12 (as new name for rufipennis Solier, 



not Gravenhorst). 

 Philonthus rufipennis (Solier) Faikmaire and Geri[AIN, 1861, p. 431. (Not 



Gravenhorst, 1802.) 

 Philonthus pauxillus Sot^sky, 1868, p. 133. 



Philonthus cinctulus Horn, 1884, p. 22-3. (Error; not Gravenhorst, 1S02.) 

 Philonthus parvimanus Sharp, 1S85, p. 406. 



Description. — Head black, pronotum rufopiceous. elytra and abdo- 

 men piceocastaneous with apical borders narrowly paler. Head' 

 suborbicular, posterior angles entirely rounded; eyes at about their 

 length from base; disk impunctate except for two large punctures 

 forming (with two supraocular) a row between the eyes; with very 

 fine punctulae and strigulose ground sculpture. Pronotum, one- 

 twelfth longer than wide, distinctly narrowed in front with sides 

 straight, with base completely rounded into sides; with two discal 

 series of three punctures, and with about four lateral punctures; 

 ground sculpture as on head. Elytra with moderate but rather 

 indefinite punctures generally separated by their diameter or less and 

 sometimes indistinctly submuricate; without ground sculpture. 

 Abdomen finely and irregularly but not densely submuricately punc- 

 tate ; with only a trace of transverse ground sculpture. Male., eighth 

 sternite with an abrupt triangular emargination twice as wide as deep ; 

 seventh sternite not at all emarginate. Female.^ eighth sternite 

 rounded. Length, 4 to 7 mm. 



Type locality. — "America septentrionali." Of vllis, St. Thomas; 

 of orphanvs, "Caracas Columbiae"; of cinctutus^ nanus., and palleo- 

 lus, Pennsylvania; of parvimanus, (Central America) ; of pauxillus, 

 Mexico ; of rufipennis and pyroptenu^, Chile ; of varicolor, California. 



Types. — Presumably in the Zoologische Museum, Berlin. Of 

 vilis and orphanus, either in the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the 

 Zoologische Museum, Berlin; of cinctutus, nanus, and palleolus, in 

 the Museum of Comi)arativo Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; of par- 



