388 STAPHYLINIDA. 
sparingly punctate, the sixth and seventh segments each with a band of scanty white 
hairs at the base, the preceding segments with just a few white hairs at the base of 
each at the middle and sides. Breast with well-marked cinereous pubescence; hind 
body beneath very sparingly punctate, shining. 
The species has a Philonthus-like aspect, and is similar in form to P. splendens, but 
is more robust and rather larger; the ligula is acuminate, with the angle very minutely 
emarginate. 
A pair taken at Zapote are similar to one another, except that the male has the 
anterior parts broader than the female. A third individual, found in Guatemala, 
without special locality, has the punctuation rather less coarse; a mutilated and 
abraded individual from Costa Rica doubtfully belongs to the same species. 
40. Staphylinus chiriquensis. 
Niger ; capite thoraceque subcyaneis, crebre minus fortiter punctatis, pernitidis, scutello nigro-tomentoso ; elytris 
purpureis, subtiliter discrete punctatis, sat nitidis; abdomine tomentoso, opaco, segmentis 6° et 7° basi 
pareius albido-pubescente. 
Long. 19 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 
Head quadrate, very distinctly but not closely punctate, and with an impunctate 
space on the middle; eye occupying about one half the length of the side. Thorax 
punctured like the head, with a broad impunctate line along the middle. Hind body 
black, not shining, being covered with a black tomentum, except at the anterior outer 
angle of each segment; the two apical segments furnished at the base with only scanty 
griseous hairs. 
This is a very peculiar species, resembling Philonthus in the definite punctuation of 
the wing-cases ; the ligula is very distinctly emarginate. A single male only has been 
found; it has a broad very shallow emargination of the apical ventral plate, and a 
slight emargination of the preceding segment. 
41. Staphylinus gracilipes. (Tab. IX. fig. 24.) 
Niger ; capite thoraceque aureo-eneis ; elytris fulvis, basi apiceque aureo-pubescentibus ; abdomine nigro-tomen- 
toso, segmentis terminalibus dense aureo-tomentosis; antennarum basi, tibiis tarsisque rufis, femoribus 
nigricantibus, antennis ante apicem obscurioribus. 
Long. 15-18 millim. 
Hab. Muxico (Flohr), Cordova (Sallé), Misantla, Jalapa (Hoge). 
Head short and broad, with long mandibles and rather prominent eyes, coarsely 
punctate, but with the surface shining, bearing a scanty flavescent pubescence. Thorax 
subquadrate, rather small, similar in punctuation, pubescence, and colour to the head, 
with a narrow smooth space along the middle. Scutellum with dense black tomentum. 
Elytra of a tawny colour, clothed at the base and extremity with golden pubescence, so 
