from the West Indies. 117 
punctured and average size larger; the antenne are similarly 
constructed and reddish testaceous. 
St. Vincent (7. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 
51. Diochus antennalis, sp. n. 
(Fauvel, in litt.) 
Reddish testaceous, shining ; the head and base of the 
abdomen often darker, the elytra paler. Antennz and legs 
testaceous. 
Length 3-3°5 mm. 
Build of D. nanus, Er., but at once distinguished from it 
and the above-described species by the much longer antenna, 
the fourth joint being distinctly longer than broad, and the 
following ones much less strongly transverse. The sculpture 
differs little from that of D. nanus. 
Grenada (H. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 
STAPHYLININI. 
52. Holisus rufoniger, sp. n. 
(erythroderus, Fauyel, in ltt.) 
Depressed, black, shining; the thorax and abdomen 
bright reddish testaceous, the anterior portion of the seg- 
ments of the latter sometimes more or less infuscate. Ely tra 
pitchy. Antenne and legs reddish Rewbaceous. 
Length 3°3 to 4 mm. 
In build similar to H. atratulus, shal but smaller. 
Head black, quadrate, the posterior angles briefly rounded, 
the front triangularly impressed, and with an oblique im- 
pression internal to the eyes on either side, which with the 
frontal one are moderately coarsely and closely punctured 
and bound a V-shaped smooth space, the sides moderately 
coarsely but not closely punctured, the vertex smooth; 
ground-sculpture firm and strigose. Antenne with the 
second and third joints of equal length, the fourth as long as 
broad, the fifth to the tenth transverse, gradually increasing 
in breadth, the penultimate twice as broad as long, 
Thorax reddish testaceous, narrower than the head, much 
more finely, but not less closely, punctured than the head, 
and with a similar ground-sculpture. Scutellum reddish, 
sparingly and obsoletely punctured. Elytra pitchy-red or 
pitchy-brown, about half as long again as the thorax, 
longer than broad, closely aud rather finely punctured 
