642 Mr. M. Cameron on new Staphylinidee 
with a few small scattered punctures on either side of the 
disc, the middle of which and the sides impunctate. Elytra 
with sculpture consisting of small scattered granules. 
Abdomen nearly impunctate. 
¢. Seventh dorsal segment with minute tubercle on either 
side of the middle a little in front of the posterior margin ; 
eighth dorsal segment with the lateral margin produced into 
a curved, rather short, sharp tooth, the posterior margin 
deeply excised internal to this, in the middle forming a tri- 
angular lobe with apex broadly rounded aud not extending 
beyond the level of the lateral teeth. 
Jamaica. Type in my collection. 
86. Gyrophena (s. str.) eneicollis, sp. n. 
(Fauvel, in litt.) 
Robust, black, shining ; the head and thorax with greenish- 
bronze reflex; the elytradark brown. Abdomen sometimes 
obscurely lighter at the base. Thorax with four punctures 
on the disc. Antenne stout, entirely testaceous. Legs tes- 
taceous. . 
Length 15 mm. 
A small robust dark species of about the build of 
G. poweri, Crotch, and allied to G. piceicollis, m., in general 
facies but differently coloured. 
Head broad, scarcely perceptibly and very sparingly punc- 
tured. Antenne short and stout, the third joint shorter and 
narrower than the second, the fourth small, transverse, the 
fifth much broader than the preceding, the penultimate fully 
three times as broad as long. ‘Thorax with four small punc- 
tures on the disc, otherwise practically impunctate and with 
very obsolete, scarcely visible ground-sculpture. Hlytra as 
long as but broader than the thorax, transverse, finely, 
obsoletely, and very sparingly punctured, with obsolete 
ground-sculpture. Abdomen exceedingly finely and very 
sparingly punctured, finely coriaceous. 
6. Sixth segment with four large tubercles placed trans- 
versely in front of the posterior border ; seventh with a 
semicircular ridge (the convexity backwards) in the middle 
anterior to the posterior border; eighth triangularly pro- 
duced, the apex rounded. 
Grenada, St. Vincent (H. H. Smith). Type in the British © 
Museum. 
