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THE ANNALS 



AXD 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 70. OCTOBER 1913. 



X X X TX. — Descriptions of new Species of Staphylinidye from 

 the West Indies. By Malcolm Camerox, Al.B., R.N., 



F.E.S. 



Part I. 



L ISPI N I. 



1. Lispinus claviger, sp. n. 

 (Fauvel, in litt.) 



Black, shining; thorax and elytra red ; antennae and legs, 

 posterior margins of first tour visible abdominal segments 

 narrowly, the penultimate broadly, and the last entirely 

 reddish testaceous. 



Length 2 mm. 



Size of L. nigrifrons, Fvl., but the much less depressed 

 form, more shining, differently coloured, distinctly but 

 sparingly punctured thorax, and the very slight ground- 

 sculpture of the fore parts readily distinguish it. 



Head black, slightly rufescent in front, with a well- 

 marked fovea on either side between the eyes, feebly and 

 sparingly punctured, with a fine transverse strigose ground- 

 sculpture and a few fine setae. Antennae pilose, with the 

 first three joints gradually decreasing in length ; fourth and 

 fifth about as long as broad; sixth small, transverse; seventh 

 to tenth much more strongly transverse ; eleventh short, 

 oval. Thorax distinctly transverse, as wide as the elytra, the 

 sides slightly rounded in front, the basal third narrowed in a 

 Ann. (& Mag. X. I fist. Ser. 8. Vol. xii. 24 



