370 STAPHYLINIDA. 
Head with a slight metallic tint, very closely punctured all over. Thorax coarsely 
and densely punctured, but with a broad straight line down the middle smooth. Elytra 
short and broad, without definite punctuation. Hind body red, with the segments each 
broadly marked with black on the middle and at the sides, but the seventh segment 
entirely yellow, and the anal styles yellow, a little infuscate at the extremity. 
The male has the posterior lobe of the hind coxa with an increased extension 
externally; the posterior external angle is, however, only rectangular, not at all 
spinose. The apical ventral plate has a very broad, curved (not angular) emargination 
in the middle behind. 
I have seen only a single Mexican example, from which the pubescence is unfortu- 
nately in great part removed. The unique example found by Mr. Champion in Guate- 
mala may possibly prove to be a very closely allied but distinct species, as the peculiar 
extension of the hind coxa is greater, and its posterior external angle is somewhat pro- 
duced and spinose. This specimen has a rather broader head, and more metallic head 
and thorax, so that I am in doubt whether it be a better developed male variety of G. 
flohri or a very closely allied species. The figure is taken from this individual. 
Group STAPHYLININA. 
Superior line of the prothorax deflexed to the under surface at the front angle; 
inferior line not continued on to the front aspect of the thorax, and usually united with 
the superior line behind the prosternum. 
CREOPHILUS. 
Creophilus, Mannerheim, Brachel. p. 20. 
Staphylinus, Fam. II., Er. Gen. et Spec. Staph. p. 347. 
Emus, pars, Fauvel, Faune Gall.-rhen. ii. p. 394. 
This genus consists of eight or nine species, six of which are confined to the antipodes 
and New Guinea, a seventh is found in South America, the eighth being very widely 
distributed in the eastern hemisphere and occurring in a slightly modified form in our 
region, to which it is probably a comparatively modern immigrant, that may well have 
arrived by way of Kamtschatka and Alaska. Fauvel’s union of the genus with the 
European Hmus is not a correct step, the differences in the prothorax being of much 
importance, and corroborated by other minor distinctions. 
1. Creophilus maxillosus, var. villosus. 
Staphylinus mazillosus, Linn. Faun. Suec. no. 891’. 
Staphylinus villosus, Grav. Micr. p. 160°; Er. Gen. et Spec. p. 849°. 
Creophilus villosus, Nordm. Staph. p. 319%. 
