MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 531 



Remarks. — This species is readily distinguished by the testaceous 

 elytra as well as by the feeble elytral punctation. The latter appears 

 to be variable, but the large punctures are never regularly serial. 



I have received no record of its habits. 



7. BRYOPORUS SUBTERRANEUS, new species 



Description. — Testaceous, the elytra and abdomen somewhat ru- 

 fescent. Head almost as broad as long but somewhat narrowed in 

 front, eyes at at least three times their length from base ; with scat- 

 tered irregular small punctures, but without ground sculpture. Pro- 

 notum scarcely wider than long, widest just behind middle, only 

 slightly narrower in front than at hind angles; with a pair of large 

 discal punctures at apical fifth and another pair at basal fourth, and 

 •with large punctulae throughout ; without ground sculpture. Elytra 

 shorter and narrower than pronotum ; with coarse but irregular punc- 

 tures throughout, serial only along suture; without distinct ground 

 sculpture. Abdomen with coarse but very shallow punctures, feebly 

 submuricate; with traces of strigulose ground sculpture, especially 

 apically. Length, 3 mm. 



Type locality. — Jamaica, main range of the Blue Mountains; ele- 

 vation 5,000 to 7,388 feet. 



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

 lected on August 17-19, 1934, by Dr. P. J. Darlington. 



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



Jamaica: Blue Mountains (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the holotype. 



Remarks. — This species is very distinct because of its subterranean 

 facies. The reduced elytra, the punctation of the head and elytra, 

 and the shape of the pronotum will also serve to distinguish it. 



I have received no record of its habits. 



Subfamily Hypocyphtinae 



This group has generally been classified as a tribe in the subfamily 

 Tachyporinae, but it differs from the other members of that sub- 

 family in so many points that I see no other course at present than 

 to raise the tribe to a subfamily. These characters include the absence 

 of the frontal sutures, the elongate lacinia of the maxilla, the com- 

 plete submental sutures, the large mesosternal intercoxal process, the 

 4-segmented tarsi, the absence of paratergites on the second abdom- 

 inal segment, and the extreme development of the male genitalia. 



Only one genus has been found in the West Indies. 



