MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 529 



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



Hispaniola: Dominican Republic, Valle Nuevo (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and 

 U.S.N.M.), Loraa Rucilla (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



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



Remarks. — This species is distinct by the bright rufous color of the 

 head and pronotum, as well as by the shape of the head and the size 

 of the eyes, and the basal pair of pronotal punctures. 



The tyjjes were taken in cloudforest, but I have received no other 

 record of the habits of this species. 



4. BRYOPORUS OBSCURUS (Erichson) 



Boiitobius ohscurus Ekiciison, lS39b, p. 272. — Leng and Mutchlek, 1914, p. 407. — 

 Beknhauee and Schubert, 1916, p. 460.— Wolcott, 1924, p. 79 ; 1936, p. 198. 



Description. — Piceous, edges of pronotum, elytra, and abdominal 

 segments more or less rufescent. Head suborbicular, deflected ; eyes 

 at more than their length from base ; Avithout punctures on the disk ; 

 with indistinct ground sculpture. Pronohmi about one-fourth wider 

 than long, widest at basal third; basal angles obtuse but distinct; 

 rather strongly convex ; with a single pair of discal punctures at an- 

 terior fourth and another pair near base; surface indistinctly pitted 

 and with traces of ground sculpture. Elytra with moderately large 

 but shallow and irregular punctures in longitudinal series, the sutural 

 impressed, the rest not very distinct ; with traces of ground sculpture 

 between. Abdomen with pimctures a little finer and less distinct than 

 on elytra; without distinct ground sculpture. Length, 3^2 to 4 mm. 



Type locality. — Puerto Eico. 



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

 Museum, Berlin. 



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



Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1839b). 

 Grenada: (British Museum). 



Specimens exainined. — I have seen only one example in the British 

 Museum. It was borrowed for further study. 



Remarks. — The specimen on which the above description was based 

 was placed in the British Museum under the name Bryoporus seri- 

 atus Erichson from Brazil. My examination showed that the two 

 were not the same, and I cannot now find any character to distinguish 

 it from ohscwncs, which was described from the West Indies and ap- 

 parently has not been reported since. 



I find no record of its habits. 



5. BRYOPORUS ACICULATUS, new species 



Description. — Dark rufous, feebly picescent in part. Head sub- 

 orbicular, eyes occupying less than half the length; without discal 



