REVIEW OF ANTILLEAN GLYPTOLENUS BATES (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES PRECINCTIVE TO ST.-VINCENT

The Neotropical genus Glyptolenus Bates is represented in the West Ind ies by five species, three of which are geographically restricted to s ingle islands; G. latelytra (Darlington) in Jamaica, G. simplicicollis Darlington in Dominica, and G. smithi, new species from St Vincent. G lyptolenus chalybaeus (Dejean), widespread on the eastern South Americ an mainland, extends northward through the Lesser Antilles to Montserr at. The fifth species, G. negrei Perrault, also widespread on the nort hern rim of South America, ranges only as far north as the continental island of Trinidad. The first four taxa have most likely achieved the ir distributions by over-water dispersal from mainland South and Centr al America, possibly as many as four separate times. Their absence fro m the Greater Antilles of Cuba and Hispaniola is contrasted to the occ urrence of multiple lineages on those islands in the closely related g enus Platynus Bonelli.