330 Mr. M. Cameron on new Staphylinidae 



$ . Eighth dorsal plate with horseshoe-shaped emargi- 

 nation, fourth and fifth ventral plates impressed in the 

 middle, sixth ventral plate with a narrow, rather deep, 

 triangular excision. 



Grenada (H. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 



Pinophili. 



12. Pinophilus vermifurmis, sp. n. 



(Fauvel, in Hit.) 



Head and elytra reddish brown ; thorax and abdomen 

 pitchy brown, the posterior margins of the segments and 

 apex of the latter reddish. Antennae, mouth-parts, and legs 

 pale yellow. 



Length 65 mm. 



Of about the size and build of P. debilis, Shp., but easily 

 distinguished by being less shining and more pubescent, 

 with shorter thorax, more sparingly punctured head, much 

 more coarsely and sparingly punctured abdomen, and with 

 red elytra. 



Head large, transverse, with the eyes nearly as broad as 

 the thorax at the anterior angles ; eyes large, temples 

 scarcely visible ; front with an obsolete puncture on each 

 side of the middle line behind the labrum ; a row of four 

 or five moderately large punctures on each side, converging 

 towards the vertex, and two or three more or less obsolete 

 punctures above and behind the eyes ; no visible ground- 

 sculpture. Antennse filiform, pilose ; first and second joints 

 stout, elongate ; second shorter and not so thick as first ; 

 third to seventh distinctly longer than broad, club-shaped ; 

 eighth and ninth a little longer than broad; tenth and 

 eleventh moniliform. Thorax a little broader than long, a 

 little wider at the anterior angles, narrowed in a straight 

 line to the posterior angles, which are obtuse ; truncate 

 anteriorly with rounded anterior angles ; disc with smooth 

 impunctate line ; the rest of the surface covered with pretty 

 close, moderately coarse, umbilicate puncturation ; pubes- 

 cence rather long and scanty. Elytra as wide as the thorax 

 at the anterior angles and a third longer, distinctly longer 

 than broad, coarsely and closely punctured, much more 

 closely and coarsely than the thorax ; pubescence rather 

 long, scanty. Abdomen gradually but strongly attenuated 

 posteriorly ; the first two visible segments pretty closely and 

 moderately coarsely punctured, the following gradually less 

 closely and more finely ; pubescence rather long, not thick. 



Mustique Island, Grenadines (H. H. Smith). Type in 

 British Museum. 



