Staphi/lbiida of the Amazon Vallei/. 153 



greenish, ratlier coarsely and sparingly pnncturecl, with 

 numerons fine punctures mixed with the large ones. 

 Ihorax nearly as long as broad, a little narrower than the 

 elytra, distinctly narrowed in front, of a shining bluish 

 colour, but dulled by a dark-fulvous pubescence Avhich 

 appears black in most lights; it is moderately coarsely and 

 not densely punctured, fine punctures are distributed over 

 the interstices of the larger ones. Scutellum densely 

 clothed with black tomentum. Elytra about as long as 

 the thorax, of a rich tawny colour, quite dull from a de- 

 pi-essed tomentum, and furnished besides this with rather 

 stiff depressed concolorous hairs. Hind body narrow^ed 

 to the extremity, of a tawny-brownish colour, the segments 

 furnished on the upper side with a rather scanty golden 

 tomentum, and with rather numerous, stiff, concolorous 

 hairs. Legs tawny yelloAv ; front coxfe a little infuscate. 

 The under surface tawny, with a scanty golden pubes- 

 cence. 



Ega ; one specimen, $ . 



5. Staphylinus grains, n. sp. Fulvus, capite thorace- 

 que cyaneis, fulvo-pubescentibus, scutello fulvo-tomentoso, 

 abdomine segmento sexto nigricante, apice segmentoque 

 septimo testaceo. Long. corp. 7 lin. 



Mas latet. 



Allied to the pi-eceding but very distinct. Antenna? 

 longer than the head, the three basal joints taAvny yellow, 

 the rest infuscated; joints 2 and 3 rather short, 3rd longer 

 than 2nd, 4 — 10 transverse, but the 4th narrower than the 

 5th ; 11th joint sinuate at the extremity, one angle being 

 pointed. Palpi yellowish. Head small, narrower than 

 the thorax, much narrower than the elytra, narrowed 

 in front, rather coarsely but not densely punctured, 

 with a considerable impxmctate space in the middle, 

 shining blue, with a dark-reddish pubescence of erect 

 hairs. Thorax about as long as broad, the sides a little 

 arched and slightly narrowed in front, coarsely but by no 

 means densely ])unctured, with a very narrow smooth line 

 along the middle, shining blue, with a long, erect, reddish 

 pubescence. Scutellum with a dense fulvous pubescence. 

 Elytra scarcely so long as the thorax, dark tawny, clothed 

 with a dense concolorous pubescence, and also with de- 

 pressed fine hairs. Hind body narrowed to the extremity, 

 reddish-broAvn ; the 5 th segment darker at the base, the 



