MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 359 



tervals convex; without ground sculpture. Abdomen with fine but 

 obsolescent submuricate punctures. Male^ eighth sternite broadly anrl 

 feebl}' emarginate, the apex of the emargination interrupted by a 

 feeble broad lobe of the sclerite. Female, unknown. Length, 3 mm. 



Type locality. — Grenada, 1 mile south of Sauteurs, at tlie northern 

 end of the island. 



Types. — Holotype, male, in the United States National Museum, No. 

 52391, collected by me on Januai'y 13, 1936. Twelve paratypes are in 

 the British Museum. 



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



St. Vincent: (British Museum). 



Grenada: (Blackwelder station 1.37; British Museum). 



Spechnens exam hied. — I have seen only the 13 types. 



Remarhfi. — The type specimen differs from exlqim {auripilis and 

 circumfexKS of (^ameron) in the strongly dentate labrum and rounded 

 basal angles of head. In labral structure it is close to the prevailing 

 conception of Dibelonetes. The paratypes were placed in the British 

 Museum under the name Dihelonetes stigma Erichson. A specimen of 

 the latter from Brazil appears to be larger, with coarse punctation, 

 and has anuicli larger elyti'al black spot than oiu' species. 



'Hie type was fouml in decaying cocoa pods. 



4. STILIPHACIS OCCIPITALIS Bierig 



Stiliphacis occipitalis Bterig, lOSSb, pp. 141, 142, figs. 3-5. — Blackwklder, 1939a, 



pp. 115, 122. 

 Stiliphacis iruncata Biehjig, MS. 



Description. — Testaceous. Head moderately large, subhexagonal, 

 including the eyes as Avide as elytra; eyes rather prominent, separated 

 from base by about their length ; sides behind eyes feebly converging, 

 angles rather broadly rounded; iimbilicate punctures largo and dense, 

 frequently irregular in shape, without ground sculpture on the in- 

 tervals; labrum transverse, at middle with two acute teeth about two- 

 thirds as long as labi-um, longer than distance between them, and a pair 

 of minute denticles outside them. Pronotum a little longer than \\ ide, 

 not prolonged in front, five-sixths as wdde as elytra, widest at anterior 

 third, strongly narrowed in front, moderately narrowed behind to 

 rounded angles; sides indistinctly tuberculate; umbilicate punctures 

 as on head, irregular and often uniting in short grooves; without 

 ground sculpture. Elytra one-fifth "wider than long, as long as pro- 

 notum; with rather coarse impressed punctures separated by feebly 

 convex intervals; without ground sculpture. Abdomen sparsely and 

 rather indistinctly subnuiricately punctate. Male., unknown. Female., 

 eighth sternite rounded. Length, 2 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba, Sierra del Rosario. 



Typc^. — In the collection of Alexander Bierig. 



