MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLIxXIDAE 453 



sides; anterior part between eyes flattened; with scattered, coarse, 

 indistinct umbilicate punctures except at center of vertex, dense 

 behind eyes, sparse in front; surface with strong scaly ground sculp- 

 ture throughout; pubescence long and conspicuous. Pronotum one- 

 fifth longer than wide, widest at anterior fifth, scarcely narrowed to 

 prominent anterior angles, sinuately narrowed to strongly rounded 

 base; punctation, sculpture, and vestiture similar to those of head. 

 Elytra with outer posterior angles completely rounded; densely and 

 rather coarsely punctate, but without distinct ground sculpture. 

 Abdomen with third to fifth sternites with an arcuate basal eleva- 

 tion; punctures irregular but generally fine and often submuricate; 

 with very vague transverse ground sculpture. Male^ eighth sternite 

 with a small, rounded, triangular emargination. Female^ sternites 

 rounded. Length, 8 to 9 mm. 



Type locality. — Mexico. Of anceps, Colombia; of segmentarius^ 

 Colombia. 



Types. — Disposition not known. Of anceps and segmentarius., in 

 either the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



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



Trinidad: (Bryant, in British Museum), Caparo (Klages, in British Museum), 



Manzanilla (Blaekwelder station 103A), Port of Spain (Blackwelder station 



115). 

 South America: Colombia (Erichson, 1839b, as anceps and segmentarius; Sharp, 



1884; British Museum), Venezuela (British Museum), Brazll (Sharp, 1876, 



as luteipes; British Museum), Perv (Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914; Plavilst- 



schikov, 1929), British Guiana (British Museum). 

 Central America: Panama (British Museum), Panama and Guatemala (Sharp, 



1884, as segmentarius), Mexico (Nordmann, 1836; Erichson, 1839b, as 



fasciatus; Sliarp, 1884, as fasclatus). 



Specimens examined. — From the West Indies I have seen nine 

 examples in the British Museum and two collected by me in December 

 1935. 



Remarks. — The examples in the British Museum were separated 

 under the names anceps and segmentarius., but I was unable to find any 

 difference except color. A specimen of the dark form was borrowed 

 and appears to be inseparable from the light form which I collected. 

 Tliis species belongs in the subgenus Philothalpus s.str. 



Inasmuch as fasciatus is the older name, it cannot be used as a variety 

 of anceps. I have, therefore, suppressed anceps.^ which may be con- 

 sidered to be a subspecies or variety by some workers. However, 

 fasciatus must be the valid species. 



My specimens were found in freshly cut cocoa pods and flying at 

 dusk. 



2. PHILOTHALPUS ANALIS (Erichson) 



Philonthiis analis Eeichson, 1840, p. 495. — Lucas, 1857, p. 50. — Sharp, 1876, pp. 

 132, 136; 1884, p. 348. (Not Hoer, 1838-42; not Fauvel, 1907.) 



