252 MR, HARDY ON THE BERWICKSHIRE STAPH YLINID-S. 



Ent. Brit. i. 612.— Quediua rufitarsis, Stepliens, 111. M. v. 220.— Manual, Ko. 

 3095.— Emus floralis. Lacordaire, F. E. Paris, i. 380. 



In dark cellars and outhouses, and occasionally under bark, and on the sea 

 coast, rare ; var. a. at Penmanshiel, and with Pristonychus Tcrricola, on the 

 sandy coast at the Ewe Lairs, by Linhead ; and var. b. on a barren shore be- 

 tween Redheugh and Dulaw, J. H. Var. b. at Berwick, Dr. Johnston. 



A very variable insect, the impressed and dilated sides of the thorax cha- 

 racterise it from any other of the local species, with which it would be liable to 

 be confounded. 



3. Q. iMPRESSus (Staph. Panz. Fn. Germ. 36, 21) : Black, very shining ; head 

 narrower than the thorax, suborbiculate, obsoletely depressed in front in the 

 male ; eyes middle sized, slightly prominent ; thorax scarcely narrower than 

 the elytra, slightly rounded on the base, moderately on the sides, and some- 

 what narrowed in front ; slightly convex, discoidal punctures of considerable 

 size ; scutellum very smooth ; elytra a little longer than the thorax, minutely 

 and scatteredly punctulate, with three series of large, remotely placed punc- 

 tures on each elytron, one near the suture, the other two on the disk, and a 

 fourth of more minute and closer punctures along the upper edge of the in- 

 flexed margins, glabrous, shining, nigro-subvirescent, with the sutural, apical 

 and lateral margins piceo-testaceous ; abdomen finely and remotely punctu- 

 late, with a shining coppery versicolorous gloss, especially beneath, apex of the 

 sixth segment beneath emarginate, slightly depressed and polished, seventh 

 groved in the centre in the male ; antennae black, fuscous outwardly ; legs 

 dark piceous, with the joints and tarsi paler ; femora with metallic tints ; 

 anterior tarsi much dilated in both sexes. L. 34 lines. 



Stephens, 111. M. v. 219.— Manual, No. 3092.— ^w^. Edinensis, S15.—Erichson, 

 Gen. et Spec. Staph. 530. — Staphylinus impressus, Oyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 307. — 

 Philonthus impressus. Beer, Fn. Col. Helv. i. 274. 



Not very common : inland and on the coast. 



* • Thorax with a membranaceous process behind the anterior coxse. 



Div. Thorax with two rows of punctures on the disk, placed obliquely, 3 

 in each. 



4. Q. MOLocHiNus (Staph. Grav. Mon. 46) : Black, head and thorax shining; 

 head narrower than the thorax, suboval, somewhat convex, a puncture on each 

 side between the eyes in front, the forehead in the middle being destitute of 

 punctures, about four impressions behind the eyes, with other crowded punc- 

 tures on the sides ; eyes of a considerable size, and somewhat prominent ; tho- 

 rax wider than the elytra, somewhat narrowed in front, the base considerably 

 rounded, the sides slightly, the two last of the dorsal punctures nearest, lateral 

 punctures about three, the punctures moderate-sized ; scutellum finely punc- 

 tulate ; elytra shorter than the thorax, narrow, subquadrate, scarcely flat, 

 thickly and finely punctate, slightly shining, dull red or pitchy ; abdomen 

 long, thickly and finely punctulate, with short depressed pubescence, black, with 

 a dull versicolorous irridescence ; with the fifth and sixth segments emargi- 

 nate, and a smooth shining depression along the middle of all the segments 

 until the tip of the third in the male ; antcnnse slender, rufous, piceous in the 

 middle ; legs dusky piceous, coxce and the femora in the middle darker and 

 slightly metallic tinted, apex of the femora, base and apex of the tibiaD, ai;d 

 the tarsi, subrufescent ; anterior tarsi much dilated in the male, considerably 

 in the female. L. i\—5 lines. 



