264 MR. HARDY ON THE BERWICKSHIRE STAPHYLINID^. 



black, shining, head, thorax, and scutellum very glossy ; head subequal in both 

 sexes, suboval, a little narrower than the thorax, a puncture on each side of 

 the eyes in front, near the margin, two placed obliquely above and one behind 

 the eyes, with the sides behind minutely punctulate ; eyes large, promi- 

 nent ; thorax as broad as the elytra, somewhat narrowed in front, the base 

 strongly, the sides slightly rounded, the latter not dilated, the dorsal punc- 

 tures placed moderately apart, lateral punctures about two, punctures of consi- 

 derable size ; scutellum very smooth ; elytra almost shorter than the thorax, 

 flattened, red, shining, thickly and rather finely punctured, thinly griseous 

 pubescent; abdomen gradually narrowed to the apex, finely and rather widely 

 punctulate, black, shining, with a fine coppery versicolorous gloss, tips of the 

 ventral segments sometimes narrowly rufous, the sixth segment narrowly ex- 

 cavated, and slightly impressed and smoothened at the apex in the middle, 

 fifth slightly polished in the male : antennae slender, subgeniculate, as well as 

 the palpi and legs rufous; coxse and tibise with a slight coppery tint; ante- 

 rior tarsi slightly dilated in both sexes. L. 3<^ — 4 4 lines. 



Erichson, Gen. et f^pec. Staph. 537. — Stephens, Manual, No. 3084. — Quedius 

 pvrrhopus, Kirhy, Stephens, 111. M. v. 228. — Philonthus gracilicomis, Grav. 

 Mss. Heer, Fn. Col. Helv. i. 274. 



In moist shady situations in woods; Kitchen Cleugh Dean and Penmanshiel 

 Wood, in August. 



8. Q. RUFicoLLis (Raphirus, Kirhy, Steph. III. JM. v.244) : Of the size or slightly 

 larger than Q. semiobscurus, head, thorax, and scutellum shining ; head in 

 both sexes large, scarcely narrower than the front of the thorax, suborbicu- 

 late, black and glossy, two punctures rather large between the eyes, placed on 

 the margin, and two placed obliquely above the eyes ; eyes large, prominent ; 

 thorax about the breadth of the elytra, scarcely narrowed in front, base 

 strongly, sides slightlj- rounded, convex, dorsal punctures nearly equidistant, 

 lateral punctures three, two between the dorsal series and the margin, and one 

 near the margin, all the punctures shallow, shining, rufous, or slightly clouded 

 on the disk ; scutellum quite smooth, piceous ; elytra longer than the thorax, 

 not quite flat, sides nearly parallel, thickly and rather finely punctulate, nearly 

 as in Q maurorufus, shortly griseous pubescent, shining, rufous, with the disk 

 darker ; abdomen about the breadth of the elytra at base, gradually but not 

 suddenly narrowed to the apex, rather thickly and finely punctulate, with long 

 griseous pubescence, somewhat shining, finely versicolorous irridescent, the 

 edges of all the segments narrowly and about half of the terminal one 

 rufo-testaceous, beneath sometimes rufescent ; thorax testaceous beneath ; 

 breast dusky behind ; antennae rather long, slender, the apex scarcely thick- 

 ened, related in strueiure to Q. picipes, basal joint long, second and third 

 thin, clavate, the third somewhat longer than the second, testaceous, brightest 

 at the base ; palpi and mouth testaceous ; legs testaceous red, the posterior 

 COX8B slightly darker ; anterior tarsi rather strongly dilated in the male, mo- 

 derately in the female. L. 3 — 3| lines. '' 



Raphirus ruficollis, Stephens, Manual, No. 3125. 



Very rare : in a damp field, near Penmanshiel. 



Apparently nearly related to Q. scitus, but that species appears to have the 

 antenuaj somewhat thickened, the eyes smallish (mediocres), the elytra spar- 

 ingly and rather gtrongly punctate, the abdomen narrower than the elytra, 

 sparingly punctured and rufo-testaceoas, the tarsi much dilated in both sexes. 



