MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 367 



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



Hispaniola: Dominican RtpuiiLic, San Jos<^ de las Matas (Darlington, In M.C.Z.)r 



Sdnchez (Darlington, in U.S.N.M.). 

 St. Lucia: (H. E. Box, as Blackwelder station 444B). 

 St. Vincent: (British Museum). 

 Grenadines: Mustique (British Museum). 

 Grenada: (British Museum). 

 Central America: Guatkmala, Mexico, Panama (Sharp, 1886), Costa Rica 



(Bierig, 1933). 



Spemriens examined. — I have seen 38 examples from the West 

 Indies in the British Museum, 2 from the liluseum of Comparative 

 Zoology, and 4 collected by Dr. H. E. Box in St. Lucia. 



Remarks. — I was unable to distinguish the West Indian examples 

 from the Guatemalan type of this species in the British Museum. 

 It is probably a more widespread species than our records yet 

 iudicate. 



Dr. Box collected his specimens from decomposing trash in sugar- 

 cane fields. 



2. ASTENUS CUBENSIS, new species 



Desciiption. — Rufous or ruf ©testaceous, sometimes with abdominal 

 segments piceous, disk of head and pronotum infuscate, and elytra 

 with a lateral black spot of variable size. Head a little longer than 

 wide; eyes at about their length from neck; sides evenly and strongly 

 rounded to base; with dense umbilicate punctures above extending to 

 smooth margin of clypeus in front; with indistinct ground sculpture 

 on ridges between punctures, especially in front; supraantennal ridge 

 disappearing in front of eyes; beneath with rather coarse punctures, 

 each one ill-defined anteriorly ; ground sculpture confined to area near 

 mouth parts ; united gular suture rather depressed at base. Pronotum 

 one-fourth longer than wide, seven-eighths as wide as head, widest 

 at anterior third, sides straight and strongly converging in front, 

 feebly arcuate and moderately converging behind ; with dense umbili- 

 cate punctures, seldom united or much elongate; without ground 

 sculpture. Elytra narrowed posteriorly, strongly convex ; with asper- 

 ate punctation, moderately dense, sometimes appearing to be in 

 transverse rows. Abdomen rather strongly and densely, somewhat 

 serially, muricately punctate. Male, eighth sternite with a moderate 

 triangular notch at apex; nintli torgite with a rounded emargina- 

 tion somewhat deeper than wide between two acute processes. Fe- 

 male, tergites and sternites unmodified. Length, 3 to 3^/4 nim. 



Type locality. — Cuba, Cayamas, about 15 miles west-northwest of 

 Cicnfuegos, southern Santa Clara Province. 



Types. — Holotype, male, and three paratypes, U.S.N.M. No. 52430, 

 collected in January by E. A. Schw^arz. 



