tS6 MB. HARDT ON THE BERWICKSHIRE STAPH YLINIDJE. 



RaphiruR semiobscuniR, Stephens, 111. M. v. 241. — Manual, No. 3115. — Que- 

 dius umbriniis, Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 541. — Philonthus umbrinus, 

 Heer, Fn. Col Helv. i. 277. — MaphyJinus maurorufus, Oyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 309. 



Not common : in marshy places, imder withered leaves, and herbage, by the 

 sides of streams, most frequently in woods. Grant's House in May, The Club. 

 Penmanshiel Wood, Kitchen Cleugh Dean, and the seabanks neor Kedhcugh, 

 JJf. 



The description of Stephens is quite as inexplicit as that of Marsham, but 

 from his possessing the specimen of that author, from the place assigned to it 

 in the disposition of his species, and his reference (Syst. Cat.) to Gyllcnhal's 

 description, which is a good one, this would appear to be the insect Marsham 

 had in view, rather than that to which, on the authority of Speuce, Erichson 

 h 18 referred it. Dejean arranges it as a synonyme of the maurorufus of Gyl- 

 lenhal. 



11. Q. MAURORUFUS (Staph. Grav. Mon. 56) : About the size of weaker speci- 

 meni* of thopreceding.whichit closely resembles, generally narrower, brunneous, 

 or nigro-brunneous ; head, thorax, and scutellum shining ; head a little narrower 

 than the thorax, suborbiculate, punctured as in the last, black ; eyes large, 

 less prominent ; thorax about the breadth or slightly narrower than the ely- 

 tra, subrotundate, narrowest anteriorly, rounded at the base, dorsal punctures 

 moderate sized, nearly equidistant, two lateral punctures on each side as in the 

 J)receding, black, bninneo-testaceous, or obscure on the disk with the margins 

 testaceous; scutellum very smooth; elytra about the length of the thorax, 

 squarish, the sides parallel, slightly shining, thickly and somewhat finely 

 punctulate, suture rather elevated, rather thickly griseous pubescent, fuscous 

 or fusco testaceous, with the shoulders and at times the suture more dilute ; 

 abdomen at base scarcely narrower than the elytra, the apex narrowed, rather 

 faintly and widely punctured, with longish appressed griseous pubescence, 

 shining, with changeable irridescence, sometimes very faint, the edges of the 

 two or three terminal segments above, and of all beneath and the anus testa- 

 ceous ; thorax beneath reddish testaceous ; autennao thin, not thickened at the 

 apex, the first joint testaceous, the rest tcstaceo-piceous ; mouth and palpi 

 testaceous ; legs reddish-testaceous ; anterior tarsi of the male much dilated, 

 of the female moderately. L. 3 lines. 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 542 — Raphirus maurorufus, Stephens, Man- 

 ual. No. 31 16. — Philonthus maurorufus, Heer, Fn. Col. Helv. i. 278.— Staphy- 

 liuus attennatu-a, Orav. Micr. 61. — Staphylinus prtecox, Gyll. Ins. Suec.ii.310. 

 — Kapiiirus pnecox, Stephens, III. M. v. 245. 



Rare : in marshy situations in woods : Penmanshiel Wood. 



12. Q. PICIPEN.MS (IJaphirus Steph. 111. M. v. 243) : With the habit of Q. 

 attenuatus, but larger and broader, narrowed at both ends, especially posteri- 

 orly, head and thorax shining ; head suborbiculate, narrower than the thorax, a 

 puncture on the margin of each eye, and two placed obliquely behind ; eyes 

 large, rather prominent ; thorax narrower than the base of the elytra, nar- 

 rowed in front, base strongly, sides slightly rounded, dorsal punctures moder- 

 ately asunder, the last most apart, lateral punctures^ mostly two, one near the 

 dor.sal series, and one near the margins, punctures small ; scutellum opaque, 

 densely and minutely punctulate ; elytra broader than the rest of the body, 

 widest behind, a little longer than the thorax, faintly depressed on each side 

 of the suture, very minutely and strigose i)unctulate, opaque or scarcely shin- 



