MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 449 



Type locality. — "Europe." 



Types. — Presumably in the Museum Uppsala. 



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



Cuba: (Leng and Mutchler, 1914; Erichson, 1839b; Sharp, 1884). 



Isle of Pines: (Holland, 1917). 



Jamaica: Montego Bay (Blackwelder station 17), Kingston (Blackwelder station 

 434). 



Central America: Guatemala (Sharp, 1884), Mexico (Erichson, 1839b, as vih 

 losus; Sharp, 1884; Fauvel, 1875). 



North America: Throughout the United States, Canada, Labrador, Newfound- 

 land, Greenland, and AL;\ska. 



Eurasia: Kamchatka, Siberia, Europe, England, India, Japan, Syria, Persia, 

 Caucasus, Amur, Russia. 



Africa: Egypt, Madeiras. Canaries, Barbary Coast. 



/Specijiiens examined. — I have seen seven examples collected by me 

 on July 20, 1935, and six collected by Chapin and Blackwelder gn 

 March 4,1937. 



Remarks. — This species is immediately recognizable among all West 

 Indian staphylinids, or, indeed, among staphylinids of the entire 

 world, by its characteristic size, form, and coloring. It is reported 

 to be "almost cosmopolitan" but seems to be entirely absent from 

 South America, tropical Africa, Australia, and Oceania ; in fact re- 

 stricted to the regions north of latitude 15° N. 



In a previous paper (Blackwelder, 1936) I treated the American 

 representative under the name villosus without examining the validity 

 of that name, which is better known to American entomologists. I 

 now believe villosus to be a synonym of maxillosus in company with 

 numerous other names, some of which have been considered to be va- 

 rieties (subspecies). 



Although specimens have so far been reported only from Cuba and 

 Jamaica, I believe it likely that the species will be found also in His- 

 paniola and possibly in Puerto Eico. During my own collecting, car- 

 rion was not available for examination on those islands, and it is only 

 in this situation that the species occurs normally. 



Our 13 specimens were taken from beneath a dead hawk and a dead 

 dog. 



LXIX. Genus XANTHOPYGUS Kraatz 



Xanthopygus Kraatz, 1857, p. 539. 

 Lampropygus Sharp, 1884, p. 346. 

 Heteropygus Bernhaueb, 1906, p. 195. 



Genotypes. — Staphylinus xanthopygus '^ovdi\nMm= Xanthopygus 

 xanthopygus (Nordmann) (by absolute tautonymy). Of Lampro- 

 pygus^ Staphylinus xanthopygus 1^0Tdmann=Lampropygus xan- 



