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before me only the one figured (a male found at Juquila) is in good preservation, and it has 
the anterior parts covered with a nearly concolorous pubescence, which on the elytra is 
more flavescent; the example from Parada is very abraded; that from Uruapan is 
somewhat immature and abraded, but the pubescence on the elytra is rufescent and 
concolorous, and the black spots of the hind body are considerably narrower ; I expect 
all will prove to be one species. Mr. Flohr imforms me that in November 1870 he 
found two examples of S. vittatus amongst damp leaves in a garden at Acapancingo 
near Cuernavaca. 
9. Staphylinus maculiventris. (Tab. IX. fig. 17.) 
Capite, thorace elytrisque rufo-fulvis; abdomine nigro, segmentorum marginibus elevatis segmentoque ultimo 
rufo-variegatis, segmento singulo ad latera macula conspicua pubescentiz aureo-flave ; pedibus testaceis, 
coxis femoribusque ex parte nigris, tibiis fusco-spinulosis. 
Long. 27 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas, 2000 feet (Forrer). 
Antenne rather longer than the head, red. Head large; eyes occupying scarcely 
more than one third of the length of the sides; colour dull red, with the mandibles 
black, very densely punctate. Thorax similar in colour to the head, very densely and 
obscurely punctured, quite dull. Scutellum velvety black. LElytra as long as the 
thorax, slightly more obscure in colour than it, and with a very faint maculation at the 
shoulder and sides, quite dull, densely and indistinctly punctured. The maculation of 
the hind body by the yellow spots of pubescence is very conspicuous. The male has a 
slight emargination of the last ventral plate. 
The species is closely allied to the North-American S. vulpinus, but the thorax is of 
brighter colour, and the pubescent yellow spots of the hind body are much more 
conspicuous, extending all the way along the side of each segment, but not across the 
base. Three individuals have been found. 
10. Staphylinus funebris. 
Nigerrimus, opacus, nigro-tomentosus; abdomine in medio bifariam nigro-velutino bimaculato, apice obscure 
rufo. 
Long. 19 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Purula (Champion). 
Antenne entirely black, short, and stout. Head with dense, coarse, obsolete punc- 
tures, and with quite black pubescence; quadrate, the eyes occupying scarcely one 
half the sides. ‘Thorax quadrate, densely and obsoletely punctured, with quite black 
tomentum; a short bare space along the middle at the base. Hind body intensely 
black, but allowing two black velvety spots to be seen on the middle of each segment ; 
the apex dark red. | 
This also is described from a single example in bad preservation. Though very 
