490 A REVISION OF THE STAPHYLINID^ OF AUSTRALIA, 



bronze-green, tinged with violaceous, and the legs pitchy black ; 

 the second, from Australia, has the head metallic L'olden STeen. 

 the prothorax more or less violaceous, the sides of the elytra 

 reddish, the legs pitchy, the striolation of the head less marked, 

 and the last three or four joints of the ancemife testaceous ; the 

 third, from New Guinea, Aru, and the Celebes, has the head 

 metallic golden, the prothorax violaceous, the elytra reddish, the 

 legs reddish or pitchy, and the last five joints of the antennae 

 testaceous. 



Of these forms the second or Australian type I have identified 

 from Northern Queensland, the others are unknown to me. 



136, Xantholinus socius. 



Xantholinus socius, Fauvel, Ann. Mus. Genov. X. p. 247 (1877). 



Minoribus A', jn^ictulati speciminibus magniturliue et facie 

 similis, niger, subnitidus, vix alutaceus, elytris non alutaceis, 

 magis nitidis, cum ore, anteniiis, articulo 1° excepto, segmentorum 

 marginibus pedibusque piceis ; antennis capite vix longioribus, sat 

 incrassatis, avticulis 5-10 breviter transversis, IFconico; capite 

 subquadrato, quarta jjarte longiore quam latiore, antice parum 

 angustato, angulis posticis subobtusis, utrinque vage fortiter 

 punctato, sulcis 2 anticis brevibus, subarcuatis, puucto antico 

 magno inter sulcum oculumque impresso, huic sulculo conjuncto; 

 thoi-ace antice capitis latitudine, tertia parte longiore quam latiore, 

 postice sat fortiter angustato, medio sinuate, angulis omnibus 

 rotundatis, .seriebus dorsalibus rectis 7, lateralibus incurvis 8- 

 punctabis ; scutello bipunctato ; elytris thorace parum latioribus, 

 nee longioribus, dorso subtiliter triseriatim, suturaque confusius 

 punctatis ; marginibus inflexis seriatim subtilissime, abdomine sub- 

 cupreo sat dense subtilissimepunctatis. Long. 5l-6i mm. (Fvl) 



Rockhampton, Queensland ; Victoria ; South Australia ; King 

 George'.s Sound. 



137. Xantholinus cuibratus. 



Xantholinus cribratus, Fauvel, Ann. Mus. Genov. XIII. p. 540 

 (1878). 



