MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 405 



Philonthus rotundiceps (Stephens) Mulsant and Rky, 1875, p. 4S3. 

 Philonthus immundus (Gi-avcuhorst) Fleutiaus and SalliS, 1SS9, p. S8l). 

 Philonihus fulvipes (Stephens) Fleutiaux and Salle, 1880, p. 380. (Not 

 Fabricius, 1792.) 



Description. — Head black, pronotum rufopiceous, elytra and ab- 

 domen piceocastaneous, margins of elytra sometimes narrowly tes- 

 taceous. Head suborbicular or subquadrate with angles romided, 

 not narrowed behind the eyes ; eyes at about their length from base ; 

 sometimes with an irregular depression in front; disk with two large 

 l^unctures forming (with two supraocular) a line between the eyes, 

 the supraocular punctures being placed a little more anteriorly, and 

 with two large punctures posteriorly at sides of vertex; with very 

 ^ne slrigulose ground sculpture. Pronotum scarcely longer than 

 .vide, with base completely rounded, but not distinctly narrowed in 

 front; with two discal series of four punctures, the posterior more 

 distant, with another puncture not in line but not clearly part of the 

 anterior marginal series, and with about four lateral punctures; 

 ground sculpture more distinct than on head. Elytra with moderate 

 punctures distinct and regular, generally separated by about their 

 diameter; intervals smooth. Ahdomen with very fine and moder- 

 ytely sparse submuricate punctures; with a vague trace of strigulose 

 ground sculpture, and v.dth iridescent lustre. Male^ eighth sternite 

 witli a very feeble emarginate sinuation and a triangular area in 

 front of it marked by the absence of punctures. Female, eighth 

 sternite rounded. Length, 5 to 7 mm. 



Type locality. — "Lusitania." Of immundus, Paris ; of celer, Paris ; 

 •of anthrax, "America septentr." ; of picicoUis, England ; of fulvipes, 

 England; of fortunatus, Teneriffe; of proximus, Madeira; of ro- 

 twidiceps, England. 



Types. — Probably in the Zoologische Museum, Berlin. Of anthrax, 

 immundus, and celer, probably in the Zoologische Museum, Berlin ; of 

 fulvipes^ in the British Museum; of fortunatus, in the British Mu- 

 seum ; of proximus, in the British Museum ; of picicolUs, in the British 

 Museum ; of rotundiceps, in the British Museum. 



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



Cuba: Cayamas (Casey collection, in U.S.N.M.), Soledad (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Jamaica: (Cameron collection; Cameron in Blackwelder collection; Gowdey, 

 1928), Santa Cruz (Blackwelder station 421), Milk River (Blackwelder sta- 

 tion 415), Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377), Moneagnc (Blackwelder 

 station 375), Kingston (Blackwelder station IC), Trinityville (Blackwelder 

 station 428), May Pen (Blackwelder station 425C), Black River (Black- 

 welder station 420), Newport (Blackwelder station 412A). 



Hispaniola: Dominican REPunLic, Santiago (Blackwelder station 33A), San 

 Jos6 de las Matas (Blackwelder station 38), 



