MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 511 



Description. — Head black, pronotum piceous with lateral margins 

 narrowly testaceous, elytra testaceous with base, post-humeral margin, 

 and a large discal sjDot piceous, abdomen piceocastaneous. Head not 

 punctate but distinctly transversely strigulose. Pronotmn not dis- 

 tinctly punctate, but strigulose as head and with minute punctulae. 

 Elytra not very distinctly punctate but finely and irregularly pitted ; 

 without lateral concavity. Abdomen with moderately dense punc- 

 tures obscured by irregular strigulose sculpture. Male^ seventh 

 sternite with two rounded lobes forming a median subsemicircular 

 emargination ; eighth sternite with a sinuately triangular emargina- 

 tion about as deep as wide, the posterior angles prolonged and bear- 

 ing long black setae similar to those of the other segments, and with 

 another pair of setigerous lobes at the sides and anteriorly on this 

 segment; eighth tergite divided into six slender lobes, the middle 

 two much more slender and separated only halfway to base and bear- 

 ing short setae. Female^ eighth sternite with six slender lobes, the 

 middle triangular and longer; eighth tergite with six slender lobes, 

 the middle pair more slender and longer and bearing short setae. 

 Length, 2 to 3 mm. 



Type locality. — "Europa." Of marginalis^ "America septentr."; 

 of geminatus, Brookline, Mass.; of limbatus, Paris; of pictus, Mada- 

 gascar; of suturalis, Dresden; of limhifer, "Indes orientales"; of 

 marginicollis., Ceylon ; of horeanus., Korea. 



Types. — Probably in the Uppsala Museum. Of marginalise 

 limhatus., and pictus., probably in the Zoologische Museum; of 

 suturalis^ not known ; of geminatus, in the Boston Society of Natural 

 History ; of limhifer., probably in the Zoological University Museum, 

 Moscow ; of marginicollis .^ in the Deutsche Entomologische Institute ; 

 of horeanus., presumably in the collection of Dr. Max Bernhauer. 



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



Puerto Rico: Salinas (Blackwelder station 60). 



St. Thomas: (Hamilton, 1894). 



Guadeloupe: Basse Terre (Blackwelder station 75). 



Barbados: (Blackwelder station 203). 



St. Vincent: (Blackwelder station 172; British Museum). 



Grenada: (British Museum; U.S.N.M.). 



Trinidad: Port of Spain (Blackwelder station 139). 



North America: (Gravenhorst, 1802; Fauvel, 1872; etc.). 



Europe and Asia: France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Persia, 



Annam, Burma, India, Cochin-China, Java, Sumatra, Lombok, Celebes, 



Timor, Japan, East Indies (Fauvel, 1872; Motschulsky, 1858; Fauvel, 



1904; Kraatz, 1857, etc.). 

 Africa: Madeira, Cape Verdes, Barbarie, Abyssinia, Maurice, Madagascar 



(Fauvel, 1872; Erichson, l&39b). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen from the West Indies five ex- 

 amples in the British Museum, four in the United States National 

 Museum, and seven collected by me during 1935-37. 



