510 Mr. Westwood on the Genus Staphylinus. 



this Journal, in the account of the proceedings of that Club, 

 But during the interval which elapsed between the time when I 

 transmitted the MS. of my former Paper to the Editors of this 

 Journal and the publication of No. 9, in which that paper ap- 

 peared, Mr, Curtis, (aware of my intentions at the time, and also 

 that the MS. had been forwarded to the Zoological Journal,) 

 obtained a specimen of this insect from Mr. Skrimshire, its 

 captor, of which he gave a beautiful figure in his British Ento- 

 mology, No. 143, published in December, 1826, under the name 

 of Bl. Skrimshirii — my name therefore sinks into a synonym. 

 His figure and description have however enabled me to correct a 

 slight error in the sketches which I have given of the head and 

 thorax, which were made upon a casual examination of the Insect, 

 and are taken in a different point of view to Mr. Curtis's fig. 7. 

 The form and proportion of the horns are sufficiently correct in 

 my figures, but the head in the left hand sketch is represented 

 too globose ; in Mr. Curtis's figure it is considerably longer, and 

 apparently flattened behind the base of the erect horns, my sketch 

 of which and«of the thorax is correct. 



P. 62, line 4. For Leptocherius, read Leptocheirus. 



P. 62, Note. Mr. Stephens has informed me that he considers 

 Oxytelus fracUcornis^ as the type of a sub-genus to which he has 

 given the name of Hesperophilus, from a circumstance which he 

 has observed connected with their economy, viz. that they are 

 generally on the wing in the evening. This circumstance, how- 

 ever, has been observed by Nicolai in Bledius tricormsy which he 

 says, '' Vespertino tempore copiose circumvolat." The Bledii 

 and Hesperophili also agree in their burrowing habits. Hence I 

 am led to think that the latter ought merely to form a section of 

 the former genus, instead of forming a distinct sub-genus. 



P. 65, line 22. For Lebae, read Lebise. 



P. 57 and 67. In addition to what I have already stated with 

 regard to the slighter developement of the horns in certain indi- 



