MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 341 



Type locality. — Cuba, south side of Pico Turquino, in province of 

 Oriente, elevation 3,000 to 5,000 feet. 



Types. — Holotype, male, and paratype, female, in Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoolog.y; two pamtypes, female, in United States National 

 Museum (No. 52509) ; collected in June 1936 by Dr. P. J. Darlington. 



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



Cuba; Pico Turquino (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



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



Remarks. — This is one of tlie subterranean type, which may be 

 distinguished readily by the sculpture as well as by the male charac- 

 ters. In the latter it is most like jamaicensis, which has the sternal 

 lobe similar but the eighth sternite emarginate. (The only male of 

 cubetisis I have seen has the apex of the eighth sternite somewhat 

 chipped away. Enough remains to lead me to believe that it was not 

 emarginate as in janiaicensis.) 



These specimens were taken at considerable elevations, probably 

 under ground cover. 



7. BIOCRYPTA DENSA, new species 



DcscHption. — Rufocastaneous, the head and pronotum somewhat 

 picescent. Head with eyes small, at about four times their length 

 from base, and about two times from apex ; basal segment of antennae 

 about three-fifths as long as head, scarcely longer than distance between 

 them ; antennal grooves feeble ; with uneven but not very coarse punc- 

 tures, each declivous or excavated in front, not distinctly umbilicate, 

 sparse in front, posteriorly separated by one to two times their diam- 

 eter; with fine but dense ground sculpture throughout. Pronotumv 

 with irregular impunctate median band not marked by definite series, 

 vaguely foveate near base; punctures much less coarse than on head 

 but umbilicate and seldom at all serial; with fine but dense ground 

 sculpture throughout. Elytra shorter and scarcely wider than pro- 

 notum, narrower than the abdomen, closely appressed ; punctures about 

 as coarse as on head but often indistinct and sometime coalescent, sur- 

 face both coarsely and finely coriaceous but without other ground 

 sculpture. Male, fifth sternite with a small oval median anterior 

 fovea, the middle third of posterior margin abruptly prolonged in 

 a rectangular lobe, which extends over base of seventh ; eighth with a 

 small rounded notch preceded by an indefinite triangular smooth area 

 (gutter). Female, unknown. Length, 71/2 i^ini' 



Type locality. — ^Haiti, La Visite and vicinity in the La Selle Eange, 

 5,000 to 7,000 feet elevation. 



Types. — Holotype, male, in Museum of Comparative Zoology, col- 

 lected on September 16-23, 1934, by Dr. P. J. Darlington. 



