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1 . Q. LATKBALis (Staph, Orav. Mier. 85) : Black, shining, broad, head, tho- 

 rax and Rcutellum glossy ; head large, narrower than the thorax ; eyes middle 

 •ized, scarcely prominent ; thorax broad, suborbicular, wider than the elytra, 

 the sides dilated and slightly flattened out, discoidal punctures nearly equidis- 

 tant, lateral, two or three ; scutoUum very smooth ; elytra flattish, rather 

 thickly punctured, thinly pubescent, the shoulders and reflexed margins och- 

 reo-testaceous, suture piceous ; abdomen short, finely and thickly punctulate, 

 irridescent cupreo-versicolorous, beneath with the edges of several of the s^ 

 ments rufous, the sixth emarginated, triangularly impressed and smoothened 

 at the apex, in the middle, fifth slightly sinuated, and smoothly 8ul>-imprcs8ed 

 in the male; antennee piceous, first joint, and base and apex of the second and 

 third, rufous ; mouth and palpi ferruginous ; legs piceous or blackish, femora 

 with a metallic tinge, the joints, tibice and tarsi more dilute ; anterior tarsi 

 much dilated in both sexes. L. 64 — 6 lines. 



StepJiens, 111. M. v. 216.~EnL Edinen8is,Zl5.—Erichson,Ocn. et Spec. Staph. 

 525. — Microsaurus lateralis, Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 638. — Stepliens, Manual, No. 

 3082.— Philonthus lateralis, Heer, Fn. Col. Helv. i. 273. 



Rare : five or six specimens were taken in Howpark Dean, under Agaricos 

 integer, in July. 



2. Q. FULQiDus (Staph. Fob. Syst. El. ii. 596J : Black, shining, head, thorax 

 and scutcllum glossy ; head rather large, suborbiculate, and as broad as the 

 thorax in some males, ovate and narrower in the female, beneath a strong lens 

 extremely minutely punctulate, a puncture near the margin of the eye on each 

 side, two above, and two behind each eye ; eyes small, scarcely prominent ; 

 thorax rather broader than the elytra, the sides and base nearly equally 

 rounded, the lateral margins dilated, disk convex, under a lens exceedingly 

 finely and dispersedly punctulate, dorsal punctures rather small and placed 

 near each other ; elytra a little longer than the thorax, each elytron very 

 slightly elevated in the middle, and longitudinally depressed near the suture, 

 shining, rather widely punctured, black, or with the suture and the apex 

 pitchy, or entirely bright rufous ; scutcllum very smooth ; abdomen narrowed 

 to the apex, thickly and finely punctulate, black, very slightly irridescent, or 

 with each segment and the anus tipped with rufous beneath and above, be- 

 neath with the sixth segment obseletely emarginate in the middle, and trian- 

 gularly smoothened, and the apex of the fifth triangularly smoothened and 

 shining in the male ; antennae slightly thickened towards the apex, nigro-pi* 

 eeous or black, or dilute ferruginous outwardly ; palpi piceous; legs, black cw 

 fusco-piceou.s, with the joints, tarsi, and sometimes the tibisc, piceous or ru- 

 fescent; anterior tarsi much dilated in both sexes. L. 34 — 5 lines. 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 526. 



Var. a. Black, with the elytra concolorous, legs more frequently piceous. 



Staphylinus nitidus, Grav. Micr. 31. — Quedius nitidus, Stephens, Manual, 

 No. 3087. — Staphylinus variabilis, Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 303. — Quedius variabilis, 

 Stephens, \\\. M. v. 218.— Philonthus variabilis, Heer, Fn. Col. Helv. i. 273.— 

 Staph, mesomelinus. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 510. 



Var. b. Black, with the elytra red, the legs, anus and edges of the segments 

 of the abdomen often rufo-piceous. 



Staphylinus fulgidus. Fab. Syst. El. ii. 696.— Philonthus fulgidus, ffeer.Tn. 

 Col. Helv. i. 278 -Quedius hoemoplerus, Kirby, Stephens, 111. M. v. 217.— Q. 

 hcemorrhouff, Kirby, Stephens, III. M. v. 217. — Staphylinus rufitarsis, Marsh. 



