MONOGRAPH OF WEST IXDIAN STAPHYLIXIDAE 453 



Type locality. — St. Vincent. 



Types. — Presumably in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



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



Puerto Rico: El Yunque ( Blackwelder 351A), Mayagiiez ( Blackwelder station 



358B). 

 Antigua: (H. E. Box, as Blackwelder station 444Q). 

 St. Lucia: (Blackwelder station 227). 

 St. Vincent: (Erichson, 1839b) ; Lacordaire, 1854). 

 [South America: (Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914).] 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the nine examples col- 

 lected by me in 1935-37. 



Remarks. — This species also is variable in details of the arrange- 

 ment of punctures and ridges on the head but seems to be distinct 

 from dehilis by the elongation of the punctures of the head, by the 

 sparse and coarse pronotal punctures, and by the prominence of the 

 bind angles of the pronotum. 



The record of South America by Bernhauer and Schubert is almost 

 certainly an error since they do not cite the type locality. 



These specimens were collected from rotting cocoa pods, from 

 under chips and frass on stumps, from under bark, and "from inside 

 of scarlet bracts of a large unknown species of Heliconia''^ (H. E. 

 Box). 



3. HOLISUS LAEVIS, new species 



Description. — Black, with aeneous luster. Head quadrate, as wide 

 as long; with coarse punctures arranged in an indefinite semicircle 

 back of the bases of the antennae and two confused bands converging 

 toward the neck, with two punctures on the frontal region and scat- 

 tered punctures at the sides behind the eyes; surface finely but dis- 

 tinctly longitudinally strigulate throughout. Pronotum suborbi- 

 cular, anterior angles broadly rounded, sides not emarginate pos- 

 teriorly but posterior angles traceable; with a median smooth space, 

 and scattered punctures laterally, more or less in two series in front ; 

 surface strigulose, longitudinally behind but diagonally in front. 

 Elytra moderately coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures 

 obscured by fine radiating wrinkles, but surface shining. Abdomen 

 with sparse punctures greatly excavated behind ; surface transversely 

 strigulate. Length, C mm. 



Type locality. — Jamaica, 1 mile east of Bath in parish of St. Thomas. 

 Thomas. 



Types. — Holotype, in the United States National Museum (No. 

 52455), collected by Chapin and Blackwelder on February 8, 1937. 



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



Cuba: Mountains north of Imias, Oriente (Darlington, in INI.C.Z.). 

 Jamaica: Bath in St. Thomas (Blackwelder station 392B). 



