MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 523 



Types. — Either in the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische 

 Museum, Berlin. Of brevis, probably in the Senckenburg Museum, 

 Frankf urt-am-Main ; of ohscurior and piceorufus^ presumably in the 

 collection of Dr. Max Bernhauer ; of terminalis, with rutilus. 



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



Cuba: (Fauvel, 1S63; DuVal, 1857; as terniinalis; Wright, in M.C.Z.), Cayamas 



(Schwarz, in U.S.N.M.), Soledad (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 

 Jamaica: Trinity ville (Blackwelder station 428). 

 Hispaniola: Haiti, Sources Tuantes (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), Port-au-Prince 



(Darlington, in U.S.N.M.) ; Dominican Repxjblic, Sanchez (Darlington, in 



M.C.Z. ). 

 Puerto Rico: (Erichson, lS39b, as both; DuVal, 1857, as terminalis; Fauvel, 



18(33, as tenninalis; Sharp, 1883), Ponce (R. G. Oakley, in U.S.N.M.). 

 St. Thomas: (Erichson, lS39b; Sharp, 1883). 

 St. Croix: (Blackwelder stations 341, 344). 

 Montserrat: (Hubbard, in U.S.N.M. ; Blackwelder station 269). 

 Dominica: (Blackwelder stations 251, 252). 

 St. Vincent: (British Museum). 

 Grenadines: Mustique (U.S.N.M.; British Museum). 

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

 Trinidad: Port of Spain (Blackwelder station 115), St. Augustine (Weber, in 



M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), foothills north of Tunapuna (Weber, in M.C.Z. and 



U.S.N.M.). 

 South America: Colombia (Erichson, 1839b; Sharp, 1883), Brazil (Sharp, 



1883), Akgentina, Brazil (Bernhauer, 1918, as piceorufus), Venezueia 



(Scriba, 1855, as brevis). 

 Central America: Mexico, British Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua (Sharp, 



1883), Panama (Bernhauer, 1917, as ohscurior). 

 North America: Texas (Blackwelder, 1938). 



Speciinens examined. — From the West Indies I have seen 124 exam- 

 ples in the British Museum, 24 from the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, 13 in the United States National Museum, and 11 collected 

 by me during 1935-37. 



Remarks. — In general this species is very distinct by its bright 

 red color from all except trinitatis. From this it differs in having 

 the definite lateral impression of the elytra. However, the specimens 

 I have identified as terminalis are darker, although the pronotum is 

 still lighter than the rest of the body. I can find no way to separate 

 these specimens or the original descriptions. The above description 

 was taken from specimens from Dominica. 



My specimens were found under seaweed on the beach and, more 

 commonly, flying at dusk. 



11. COPROPORUS BUSCKI, new species 



Description. — Piceous, elytra somewhat rufescent at base. Head 

 rather irregularly but distinctly punctate; surface minutely uneven 

 but not distinctly strigulose. Pronotum distinctly but somewhat 

 irregularly punctate; surface irregularly and indistinctly strig-ulose. 



