MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 291 



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

 St. Lucia: (Blackwelder station 211A). 



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



Remarks. — The shape and sculpture of the head place this species 

 in the subgenus Seopaeus s. str. 



The types were taken under stones and sand at the edge of a 

 stream in the dense forest. 



13. SCOPAEUS DARLINGTONJ, new species 



Description. — Piceocastaneous. Head feebly emarginate behind, 

 the angles rather broadly rounded; labrum with tAvo small median 

 denticles and possibly a lateral pair; gular sutures parallel, narrowly 

 separated; with dense round tuberculi somewhat obscured on disk: 

 without distinct ground sculpture. Pronotum one-ninth longer than 

 wide, the anterior angles rather broadly rounded, sides scarcely emar- 

 ginate in front, evenly curved into base behind; disk depressed on 

 either side of midline near base, midline very fine; with round tuber- 

 culi more distinct than on head; without distinct gi'ound sculpture. 

 Elytra not punctate but witli tuberculi as on pronotum, a little 

 coarser but somewhat confused by indistinctly rugulose surface. 

 Male, fourth and fifth sternites with a complete transverse fold on 

 each at middle, seventh broadly feebly emarginate; eighth with a 

 broad feeble emargination opening into a triangular excision about 

 as deep as wide. Fern-ale., unknown. Length, 3l^ mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba, Buenos Aires in Trinidad Mountains, eleva- 

 tion 2,500 to 3,500 feet. 



Types. — Holotype, male, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 collected on May 8-14, 1936, by Dr. P. J. Darlington. 



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



Cuba: Buenos Aires, in Trinidad Mountains (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the unique type. 



RemarTcs. — This species is at once distinguishable by the tuberculi 

 on the head, pronotum, and elytra. Those on the head can be ob- 

 served only with a magnification of about 60 times. S. arena has 

 the tuberculi on the elytra but lacks them on the pronotum and head. 

 The species belongs in the subgenus Scopaeys s, str. 



I have received no record of its habits. 



14. SCOPAEUS AURIPILIS Cameron 



Seopaeus auripiUs Cameron, 1913b, p. 347. — Leng and JIutchi.er, 1917, p. 199. — ■ 

 ScHEtBPEXTz, 1933, p. 1265. 



Description. — Head and pronotum ferruglneous or black, elytra 

 black with apical margin sharply testaceous, abdomen black with apex 

 of eightli and ninth tergites testaceous. Head emarginate behind, 



