124 Mr. M. Cameron on new Staphylinides 
pubescent. Abdomen pointed, the posterior margins of the 
second to the fifth segments narrowly black, and presenting 
a row of contiguous short oblong impressions, so that the 
margin appears crenulate. 
St. Lucia. Type in my collection. 
OLIGOTINI. 
64. Oligota (Holobus) laxata, sp. n. 
(Fauvel, in litt.) n 
Minute, black, shining, convex. Antenne short, the club 
3-jointed. Antenne and legs entirely yellow. 
Length ‘75 mm. 
Smaller and less robust than O. centralis, Shp., and 
differs also in the club of the antennz being more slender, 
the practically impunctate thorax, and the much more 
sparing puncturation of the elytra. 
Grenada (H. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 
65. Oligota (Holobus) smithi, sp. n. 
 (Fauvel, tx ditt.) 
Minute, black, shining, convex; the antennz, legs, and last 
two segments of the abdomen yellow. Antenne short, the 
club 3-jointed. 
Length *75 mm. 
Size and build of the preceding, but at once distinguished 
from it by the bright yellow apex of the abdomen; the 
thorax is, moreover, quite distinctly (though very finely) and 
pretty closely punctured, and the elytra much more closely 
punctured. 
Grenada (H. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 
66. Oligota (s. str.) maculicornis, sp. n. 
Shining, castaneous. Antenne with 3-jointed club, the 
eighth and ninth joints black, the remainder testaceous. 
Legs testaceous. 
Length 1 mm. 
Build of O. atomaria, Ey., but of a uniform light chestnut- 
brown colour. 
Head. exceedingly finely and sparingly punctured and 
pubescent. Antenne short, the first and second joints of 
equal length, the third to the sixth very small, moniliform, 
the seventh slightly transverse, the eighth and ninth much 
broader than the preceding, about two and a half times as 
broad as long, the tenth short, oval. Maxillary palpi pitchy. 
