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est at the base, the sides Bubsinuatod, the dorsal punctures thiec in each row, 

 very large, nearly eciuidistant, with a fourth usually smaller and more apart, 

 placed on the anterior margin, with three on the anterior angles, the limb 

 often piceous ; elytra nearly one half longer than the thorax, with nearly paral- 

 lel sides, flat, black, or fusco-testaceous, opaque, densely and minutely punctu- 

 late, rather thickly griseous pubescent, the inflexed lateral margins entirely 

 luteous, or dusky along the upper border ; abdomen elongate, opaque, minutely 

 and densely punctulate, traversed on each segment by a line of punctures, two 

 on each side, clothed with dark slaty down and pubescence, with two lines of 

 cinereous spots down the back, and other two less distinct, bordering the 

 lateral margins ; beneath somewhat shining, thickly and minutely punctulate, 

 and with the breast thickly cinereous or slaty pubescent, with a tint of fuscous 

 near the apex, sixth segment of the male emarginate and slightly longitudi- 

 nally channelled, fifth slightly emarginate and longitudinally impressed ; legs 

 nigro-fuscous, sometimes fusco-testaceous, the femora darker, anterior tarsi 

 slightly dilated in both sexes; antennce black, the basal joints ferruginous at 

 the base. L. 34 lines. 



Along the whole Berwickshire coast, under decaying sea- wrack. I have 

 found only a single male to correspond with the slender body, long elytra, 

 and the minutely and thickly punctulated abdomen found in the female. 



EHchson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 452. — Staphylinus Xantholoma, Gyll. Ins. 

 Suec. ii. 323. — Cafius Xantholoma, C. lateralis, C. littoralis, et C. tessellatus, 

 Stephens, III. M. v. 246, 247.— Catalogue, 3013-3016.— Manual, No. 3173. 



12. Ph. Fucicola (Cafius, Leach, Steph. 111. M. v. 246) : Closely allied to the 

 preceding but larger and broader ; brunneous, depressed ; head very large and 

 subquadrate in the males, subovate and more oblong in the females, pitted and 

 marked as in the preceding ; thorax nearly as in the preceding, with the dor- 

 sal punctures larger, sometimes five in each row, black or piceous, with a fer- 

 ruginus margin, piceo-ferruginous beneath ; elytra not so long and broader 

 than in the preceding, somewhat widest behind, flat, not quite opaque, thickly 

 and minutely punctulate, thinly griseous pubescent, black, fuscous or piceous, 

 with the shoulders fuscous, the inflexed margins luteous ; abdomen variegated 

 brown, somewhat shining, sparingly pubescent, with two lines of cinereous spots 

 on the back, and two less distinct on the sides, a row of transverse punctures 

 on each segment, about three on each side, rather strongly and somewhat 

 widely punctulated ; beneath shining brunneous or ferruginous, rather strongly 

 and widely punctured, sparingly fulvo-griseous pubescent, the sexual marks as 

 before ; legs, mouth, and palpi rufo-ferruginous, posterior femora dark beneath, 

 anterior tarsi slightly dilated in both sexes; antennce black, sometimes ferru- 

 ginous at the apex, the bases of the basal joints piceous. L. 3 — 5 lines. 



Eridison, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 454. — Cafius Fucicola, Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 

 Z22.— Stephens, Manual, No. 3172. 



Berwick. Dr- Johnston. 



The most obvious distinctions between this and the preceding are the slight 

 pubescence, and less opacity of the elytra and abdomen, and the deeper and 

 wider punctulation of the latter. The male abdomen is evidently more deeply 

 and widely punctate than the female, and this degree of puncturing extends to 

 males of the smallest dimensions ; but whether there be intermediate varieties 

 that connect this with the fine and abundant punctulation of Ph. Xantholoma, 



