THE ANNALS 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[NINTH SERLES.] 
No. 54. JUNE 1922. 
LXX VI.—Descriptions of new Species of Staphylinide from 
the West Indies. By Matcotm Cameron, M.B., R.N., 
F.E.S. 
Part II. 
{Continued from p. 128. ] 
BOLITOCHARINI. 
73. Diestota puncticeps, sp. n. 
(Fauvel, in litt.) 
Red, moderately shining; the base of the elytra reddish 
yellow, the rest infuscate. Antenne with the first three 
joints and the legs testaceous. 
Length 1°75 mm. 
Very similar to D. brevicornis, Shp.; the abdomen is, 
however, entirely red, the elytra in great part infuscate 
leaving ouly the base reddish-yellow, and the puncturation 
of the fore-parts is less fine. Head with close, moderately 
fine, but superficial puncturation. Antenne stout, the 
third joint shorter and more slender than the second, the 
fourth to the tenth transverse, the penultimate nearly three 
times as broad as long. Thorax transverse, the posterior 
angles obtuse, the disc usually with a transverse impression 
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