MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 393 



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

 Puerto Eico: Aibonito (Notman, 1929; Wolcott 1936). 

 Specimens examined. — I have seen only the two tj'pes. 



19. PALAMINUS VARIABILIS Erichson 



Palaminus va^-iuhiUs Ekichson, 1840, p. 683, pi. 1, fig. 8. — L.\cordaire, 1854, p. 

 104. — Sharp, 1876, p. 340. — Fleuiiaux and Salle;, 1889, p. 381. — Beknhaxjeb 

 and SCHi-BSET, 1912, p. 201. — Cameron, 1913b, p. 331. — Lekq and Mutchleb, 

 1914, p. 404.— GowDEY, 1926, p. 12.— Notman, 1929, p. 12.— Scheerpeltz, 1933, 

 p. 1217. 



Tj/pe locality. — ^"In Columbia et in Americae meridionalis ins. 

 Puerto-Rico et St. Thomae." 



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

 Museum, Berlin. 



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



Jamaica: (Gowdey, 1926). 



Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1840). 



St. Thomas: (Erichson, 1S40). 



Guadeloupe: (Fleutiaux and Salle, 1889; Leng and Mutchler, 1914). 



St. Vincent: (British Museum; Cameron collection). 



Grenada: (British Museum; Cameron collection). 



Trinidad: San Fernando Hill (Morrison, in U.S.N.M.), Palo Seco (Morrison, in 



U.S.N.M.), D'Abadie (Morrison, in U.S.N.M.), Port of Spain (Morrison, in 



U.S.N.M.), Moutserrat (Busck, in U.S.N.M.). 

 South America: Colombia (Erichson, 1840; Lacordaire, 1&'54), Venezuela (Bern- 



hauer and Schubert, 1912). 

 Central America: (Bernhauer and Schubert, 1912). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen 33 examples in the British 

 Museum, 5 in Dr. Cameron's collection, and 21 in the United States 

 National Museum. 



Subfamily Staphylininae 



This large subfamily contains most of the large species of Staphy- 

 linidae. It is readily distinguished by the characters used in the 

 key from all except the Paederinae, and from these it is known by 

 characters discussed in the introductory remarks to that group. 



Four rather distinct groups of genera occur in this subfamily. In 

 recent works they have usually been treated as tribes, viz: 

 Xantholinini, Staphylinini, Xanthopygini, and Quediini. As 

 pointed out previously (Blackwelder, 1940) these four are not of 

 equal rank, since the Xantholinini differ more from all the others 

 than they do among themselves. Relationships are therefore better 

 shown by using two tribes, the Xantholinini and the Staphylinini, 

 and then dividing the latter into three subtribes, the Staphylinina, 



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