MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 283 



Type locality. — St. Lucia, Roseau River, at elevation of about 200 

 feet, about 6 miles above its mouth. 



Types. — Holotype, male, and three paratypes, U.S.N.M. Ts^o. 52417, 

 collected by me on Marcli 29, 193G. 



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



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder station 209A). 



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



Remarks. — This species is readily distinguished by the male charac- 

 ters. It belongs in the subgenus Scopaeus s. str. 



The types were collected in the sand at the edge of a stream in the 

 forest. 



4. SCOPAEUS FASCIATELLUS Erichson 



Scopaeus fasciatelliin EriicHSO.v, 1840, p. 609. — Bkrnhauee and Schubert, 1912, 

 p. 242. — Leng and Mutchleb, 1914, p. 405. — Wolcott, 1924, p. 78; 1936, p. 

 197.— Blackwexdeb, 1939a, p. 106. 



Description. — Head and pronotum rufotestaceous, elytra and abdo- 

 men cinnamomeous. Head feebly emarginate behind, the angles mod- 

 erately i-ounded ; eyes separated from base by over twice their lenglh ; 

 labrum with two median denticles and two lateral ones; gular su- 

 tures narrowly separated and virtually parallel throughout; very 

 finely and densely punctate but with smooth shining intervals. 

 Pronotum one-fifth longer than wide, anterior angles rather broadly 

 rounded; sides in front not emarginate, scarcely arcuate to base; 

 with narrow smooth midline basally; rather indistinctly punctate 

 with surface uneven but shining. Elytra not distinctly punctate, 

 surface almost asperately sculptured, pubescent, without other dense 

 ground sculpture. Male^ fourth and fifth sternite with a transverse 

 fold widely divided at middle to form two foveae on each segment; 

 seventh sternite flattened at middle, eighth very feebly broadly emar- 

 ginate. Female (from Erichson), eighth sternite feebly triangularly 

 produced. Length. 2i/^ mm. 



Type locality. — Puerto Rico. 



Types. — Either in Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische Mu- 

 seum, Berlin. 



Record^. — The following are the records known to me : 



Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1840; Leng and Mutchler, 1914; Wolcott, 1924, 1936). 

 dales (Blackwelder station 63). 



Specimens cramined. — I have seen only one example collected by 

 me on October 12, 1935. 



Remarks. — The specimen on which this description is based agrees 

 with the original description of Erichson in all essential characters. 

 I have little doubt that the identification is correct. The shape of 



