MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 495 



ground sculpture. Franotmii three- fourths as wide as long, widest in 

 front, moderately narrowed posteriorly ; discal series of five to seven 

 punctures, lateral series of four, with few additional punctures. 

 Elytra rather feebly and sparsely punctured, with one distinct longi- 

 tudinal discal series. Abdomen sparsely but not very finely sub- 

 muricately punctate. Length, 4 to 7 mm. 



Tyi>e locality. — Sweden. Of longicolUs., Suffolk, England; of 

 ampliventHs, "environs de Bercy" (France) ; of radiosus, "Taurus, 

 au Kuleg. Boghaz" (Asia Minor) ; of pallidipennis, "Indes ori- 

 entales"; of tricolor, "insula Cejdan et in India orientali"; of flavi- 

 petinis, Ceylon; of amissus, "Mers-el-Kebir," Barbary; of breviceps, 

 "S. E. Africa. Zambesi"; of papuensis, "Nouvelle-Guinee, Salvatti"; 

 of sardous, "Cabras, in Sardegna"; of rubricoUis, Sicily; of fauveli, 

 Leeward side, St. Vincent. 



Types. — In the Zoological University Museum, Uppsala. Of 

 lonfficollis, breviceps, and fauveli in the British Museum; of a?npli- 

 ventris, presumably in the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris; of radiosus., disposition unknown to me; of pallidipennis, 

 presumabl}^ in the Zoological University Museum, Moscow; of tri- 

 color and -flavipemns, presumably in the Deutsche Entomologische 

 Institut, Berlin ; of amissns., probably in the Musee National 

 d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; of papueiisis., presumably in the collection 

 of Blanche Rancin, Caen, France; of sardous, probably in the 

 Zoologische Museum, Berlin; of rubricollis, possiblj^ in the Hun- 

 garian National Museum, Budapest. 



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



Cuba: (Leng and Mutchler, 1914 ; Gauglbauer, 1895 ; U.S.N.M.). 

 Jamaica: Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377). 

 Puerto Bico: Lajas, Yauco (Dozier, in U.S.N.M.). 

 St. Kitts: (Blacliwelder station 302). 

 Antigua: ( lUaclcwelder station 20.5). 

 Barbados: (Blackwelder stations 188, 189). 

 St. Vincent: (Cameron, 1922, as fauveli). 

 Grenada: (Cameron, 1922, as fauveli). 

 North America: (Fauvel, 1872). 



Europe: (Gyllenhal, 1827, Erichson, 1839b; Fauvel, 1872). 

 Africa: Fauvel, 1872; Ganglbauer, 1895). 



Asia: (Fauvel, 1872), Philippine Islands (U.S.N. M.), China (Cameron col- 

 lection.) 

 India: (Cameron, 1932; Fauvel, 1903; Motschulsky, 1858; Kraatz, 1859). 

 Australia: (Ganglbauer, 1895). 



SpeciTnevs examwed. — From the West Indies I have seen 3 ex- 

 amples in the British Museum (as variety fauveli)., 7 in the United 

 States National Museum, and 13 collected by me in 1935-37. 



Remarks. — This species is listed as cosmopolitan but has not been 

 specifically recorded from South America or Central America. The 



