248 MR. HARDY ON THE BERWICKSHIRE STAPHTLINIDiE. 



Among garden rubbish, &c. Penmanshiel, rather common.—/. //. Girrick. 

 — Mr. Hislop. Berwick, — Dr. Johmton. 

 It has been found in North America, and in the Isle of St. Vincent. 



20. Ph. discoidkus (Staph. Grav. Micr. 174) : Less than Ph. ventralis, black ; 

 head and thorax polished and shining, the former suborbiculate or subcordate, 

 of the breadth of the thorax, and sometimes approaching it in size ; thorax nar- 

 rower than the elytra, its sides parallel and straightish, dorsal punctures nearly 

 equidistant, deep, moderate sized, the margin often sub-piceous; elytra as long 

 as the thorax, nearly quadrate, sub-depressed, rather thickly and not quite 

 minutely punctulate, fulvo-griseous pubescent, shining, nigro-fuscous, the sides, 

 tips, and sutural margins rufo-testaceous ; abdomen short, beneath with the 

 edges of the segments piceo-testaceous, griseo-rufous pubescent, apex of tho 

 fifth in the male emarginate, Avith a narrow shining edge, middle of the base 

 in the fifth with a triangular, and of the fourth with an ovate opaque elevation, 

 bordered by a shining rim ; antennse short, incrassate, as well as the legs, mouth 

 and palpi fusco- or rufo-testaceous ; anterior tarsi much dilated in the male, 

 slightly in the female. L. 2 — 2^ lines. 



Enclison, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 474. — Heer, Fn. Col. Helv. i. 268. — Quedius 

 suturalis, Stepheiu, 111. M. v. 224. — Ent. Edinensis, 316.— Quedius discoideus, 

 Stephens, ^Manual, No. 3109. 



Rather rare : Berwick, Dunglas dean, and the Lammermuirs, Dr. Johnston, 

 Girrick, 3fr. Hislop. Penmanshiel, /. //. 



This species has been found in the West Indies. 



*••" Thorax Avith two rows of punctures on the disk, 6 in each. 



21. Ph. fulvipes (Staph. Fab. Syst. El. ii. 597) : Of the size of Ph. fimeta- 

 rius, head and thorax polished and shining ; head small, narrower than the 

 front of the thorax, somewhat oval ; thorax narrower than the elytra, compres- 

 sed and somewhat narrovved in front, the sides very slightly rounded, dorsal 

 punctures sub-equal, the anterior ones in each placed out of the rank, lateral 

 punctures five, all the punctures minute ; scutellum black or fuscous ; elytra a 

 little longer than the thorax, broadest behind, not quite flat, brightrufo-testaceous, 

 very finely punctulate, not very abundantly testaceous pubescent ; abdomen 

 very thickly and finely punctulate, with a short and rather sparing griseous 

 pubescence ; antennae thickened towards the tips, black, the three basal joints 

 beneath rufo-testaceous, above piceous ; mouth testaceous ; palpi piceous or 

 piceo testaceous ; legs fusco-testaceous, the joints and tarsi paler, posterior coxae, 

 and the femora in the middle nearly black ; tarsi of the male strongly, of the 

 female scarcely, dilated. L. 2^—3 lines. 



Erichson, Gen et Spec. Staph. 4S5.—Beer, Fn. Col. Helv. 270 — Staphy- 

 linus fulvipes, Oyll. Ins, Suec. ii. 343. — Philonthus rubripennis, Kirhy. Ste- 

 plkens, 111. M. V. 239. — Manual, No. 3165. — Philonthus corruscus, Ent. Edi- 

 n«ww,318] 



Among stones and gravel on the banks of the Berwickshire rivers and 

 brooks. 



Irrespective of the dark colour of the legs, which in the continental speci- 

 mens is of a bright testaceous, the proportions and other characters stated by 

 Gyllenhal and Erichi;on are such as to identify our insect with theirs. The 

 base of the antennae and the legs arc much paler in a state of immaturity. Ph. 

 rubripennis of Kiesenwetter (Entomologische Zeitung. v. 346. — Ray Soc. Re- 

 ports, 1847, p. 328), for whose deBcription I am indebted to A. H. Holiday, 



