MONOGRAPH OF WEST INDIAN STAPHYLINIDAE 439 



Description. — Head black, rest rufocastaneoiis with pronotum 

 sometimes feebly picescent. Head not enlarged behind eyes but 

 with basal angles moderately rounded; eyes separated from base 

 by one-third more than their length; without any longitudinal im- 

 pression on the vertex; with moderately coarse umbilicate punctures 

 (not impressed) scattered not very densely but absent along center 

 and in front; with fine but very distinct and dense scaly ground 

 sculpture. Pronotum scarcely at all longer than wide, widest at 

 anterior angles, sinuately narrowed to posterior angles, which are 

 rounded but discernible; with impunctate midline marked by two 

 fairly regular series of large and somewhat umbilicate punctures, 

 with rather dense punctures laterally separated by an irregular 

 smooth space from the series; with ground sculpture less distinct 

 than on head. Elytra with dense punctures obscured by irregular 

 and indefinite ground sculpture. Ahdomen with fine but not very 

 dense submuricate punctures; with indistinct ground sculpture espe- 

 cially apically. Male^ eighth sternite with a moderate rounded 

 emargination wider than deep and bordered with a translucent 

 membrane. Female, eighth sternite rounded. Length, 5 to 7 mm. 



Type locality. — New York, Long Island. Of hilineatit^, St. John ; 

 of ruflfrojis, Cuba, Playa de Marianao. 



Types. — Presumably in the Zoologische Museum, Berlin. Of 

 hilineatiis, either in the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische 

 Museum, Berlin; of rufifrons, holotype and allotype in Bierig col- 

 lection, and a "cotype" in the United States National Museum (No. 

 62746). 



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



Bahamas: Water Cay, Egg Island ( Wickham, 1895), Egg Island, Eleuthera Island, 

 Harbor Island (Wickliam, in U.S.N.M..) 



Cuba: Playa de Marianao (Bierig, 1934, as ruflfrons). 



Jamaica: Port Royal (Cameron collection; Koch, 1936), Montego Bay (Black- 

 welder station 407), Bluefields Bay (Blackwelder station 418). 



Mona Island: (Hoffman, in U.S.N.M.). 



Puerto Bico: San Juan (Blackwelder station 43A). 



St. Thomas: (Koch, 1936). 



St. John: (Erichson, 1840, as dilineattis) . 



St. Croix: (Blackwelder station 326). 



St. Kitts: (Blackwelder station 307). 



Antigua: (Koch, 1936; Blackwelder station 276). 



Montserrat: (Blackwelder station 268). 



Guadeloupe: (Blackwelder station 77A). 



Dominica: (Blackwelder station 240i/{)B). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder station 232). 



Barbados: (Blackwelder stations 190, 192, 197). 



Grenadines: Carriacou (Blackwelder station 143A). 



Grenada: (Blackwelder station 163). 



Tobago: (Blackwelder station 120). 



