236 Ma HARDY ON THE BERWICKSHIRE STAPHTLINIDJE. 



Oyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 2U,— Stephens, 111. M. v. 2()5.— Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 758. 

 — Ent. EdinenMs, 811 — Eridison, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 372. — Heer, Fn. Col. 

 Helv. i. 250. — Trichoderma pubcsccns, Stephens, Alanual, No. 3053. 



Rare in Berwickshire, taken once by myself near Penmanshiel. 



•• Body slightly pubescent or subglabrous, thorax very thickly punctured. 



5. St. erythropterus {Linn. Fn. Suec. No. 842) : Black, opaque, pubescent, 

 very finely punctate, the antennae at the base and apex, elytra and legs rufous, 

 head broader than the thorax, thorax narrowed towards the base, immaculate, 

 the scutellum and the patches on the posterior segments of the abdomen with 

 shining yellow sericeous down. L. 6 — 7 lines. 



EHchson,Gen. et Spec. Staph. 377.— ^eer,Fn. Col. Helv.i.251.— Staphylinus 

 castauopterus. — Grav. Micr. 10. — Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 295. — Stephens, 111. M. 

 V. 206. — Ent. Edinensis, 312. — Stephens, Manual, No. 3055. 



Rare in Berwickshire, and hitherto only taken by Dr. Johnston. 



The specimens in the Linnoean cabinet as examined by Mr. Westwood (Ent. 

 Trans, iv. 46) consist of two of St. Csesarius, Cederheim, and one of the present 

 species. The former being placed first gives some warrant for regarding them 

 as the insects the great Naturalist had in view, but his description is applica- 

 ble only to the present species. 



6. St. STERCORARirs {Oliv. Ent. iii. 42) : Black, opaque, pubescent, sub-de- 

 pressed, thickly and deeply punctate, head and thorax deep black or with a 

 brassy tint, nigro-pubescent, base of the antennoe, elytra and feet rufous, scu- 

 tellum velvety black, abdomen with silken cinereous streaks. L. 5 — 7 lines. 



Oyll Ins. Suec. ii. 296.— Stephens, 111. M. v. 206.— Manual, No. S056.—Ent. 

 Edinensis, dl2.—Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. dSO.—Heer, Fn. Col. Helv. i. 

 251. 



Rare in Berwickshire. New Water Haugh, Dr. Johnston. Road in Pen- 

 manshiel Wood, /. H. Near Nenthom, Mr. Hislop. 



7. St. latebricola {Grav. Mon. 113): Black, head rather small, subquad- 

 rate triangular and with the thorax seneous, deeply punctate, with intervals 

 between the punctures, and shining fulvo-rufous pubescent, elytra and legs 

 rufous, antennae black, piceous towards the apex, scutellum black tomentose, 

 abdomen with silken cinereous patches. L. 5— 5^ lines. 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 382.— ^«'er,Fn. Col. Helv. i. 252.— Staphyli- 

 nus sericeps, Kiiby, Stephens, 111. M. v. 206.— Manual, No. Z057.~Bolme, 

 Ent. Trans, iii. 116. 



Very rare. My specimen was found under a stone among heath, near 

 Drakemire. 



Another Scottish specimen was taken in Sutherlandshire by James Wilson, 

 Esq. According to Dr. Erichson, it is one of those species that frequent the 

 nests of ants, having been gathered by Dahl in those of Formica rufa. The 

 species most allied to it is St. chalcocephalus, Fab. which appears to be larger 

 and broader, more thickly punctate, with a more triangular head, the tibiae 

 and tarsi alone rufous. This is given as British by Mr. Stephens (Illust. But. 

 Ent. M. V. 207. — Manual, No. 3058) but his insect of that name cannot, as be 

 himself suspects, be the continental one, a.s he ascribes to it, in the first of the 

 works cited, the characters found in the thorax of Ocypus picipennis. 

 OcYPUS. Kirhy. — Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 403. 



Antennae filiform, often thickest about the fourth or fifth joints, the rest 

 decreasing in width. Labrum bilobed with a membranaceous edge. Maxillary 

 palpi sub-filiform. Ligula membranaceous, bilobed. a little shorter than the 



