from the West Indies. 117 



punctured and average size larger; the antenna? are similarly 

 constructed and reddisli testaceous. 



St. Vincent (//. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 



51, Diochus antennalisj sp. u. 



(Fauvel, tn Hit.) 



Reddish testaceous^ shining ; the head and base of the 

 abdomen often darker, the elytra paler. Antennae and legs 

 testaceous. 



Length 3-3*5 mm. 



Build of D. nanus, Er., but at once distinguished from it 

 and the above-described species by the much longer antennas, 

 the fourth joint being distinctly longer than broad, and the 

 following ones much less strongly transverse. The sculpture 

 differs little from that of D. nanus. 



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



Staphylinini. 



52. Holisus rufoniger, sp. n. 

 {eri/throderus, Fauvel, m litt.) 



Depressed, black, shining ; the thorax and abdomen 

 bright reddish testaceous, the anterior portion of the seg- 

 ments of the latter sometimes more or less infuscate. Elytra 

 pitchy. Antennae and legs reddish testaceous. 



Length 3*3 to 4 mm. 



In build similar to H. atratulus, Shp., but smaller. 



Head black, quadrate, the posterior angles briefly rounded, 

 the front triangularly impressed, and with an oblique im- 

 pression internal to the eyes on either side, which with the 

 frontal one are moderately coarsely and closely punctured 

 and bound a V-shaped smooth space, the sides moderately 

 coarsely but not closely punctured, the vertex smooth; 

 ground-sculpture firm and strigose. Antennae with the 

 second and third joints of equal length, the fourth as long as 

 broad, the fifth to the tenth transverse, gradually increasing 

 in breadth, the penultimate twice as broad as long. 



Thorax reddish testaceous, narrower than the head, much 

 more finely, but not less closely, punctured than the head, 

 and with a similar ground-sculpture. Scutellum reddish, 

 sparingly and obsoletely punctured. Elytra pitchy-red or 

 pitchy-brown, about half as long again as the thorax, 

 longer than broad, closely and rather finely punctured 



