112 INSECTS OP THE FLY RIVER, NEW GUINEA, "COLEOPTERA." 



Family. STAPHYLINID^E. 



Sub-Family. PIESTIDES. 

 23. Leptochirus Haackei. n. sp. 



Like L. monilicornis Fauv., but the antennse thicker and more 

 moniliform and the inner frontal horns more distant. 



Black, nitid ; the antennae hairy, the third, fourth and fifth 

 joints very hairy. Head quite smooth, the excavation in front, 

 the median canal and the horns in front very marked. Thorax 

 rectangular, transverse, smooth, slightly rounded on the sides and 

 with a deep median line. Elytra longer than the thorax, with a 

 well marked stria near the suture, and a longitudinal groove near 

 each side. The abdominal segments are sparingly clothed with 

 long reddish hair ; the extreme apex of the penultimate segment 

 is piceous red. The legs are slender excepting the fore tibia? 

 which are broad and serrated externally. 



Length fij lines. 



Sub-Family. PAEDERIDES 



24. Paederus Gestroi. Fauv. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoa, Vol. XIL, p. 237. 



Sub-Family. STAPHYLINIDES. 

 25. Emus Albertisii. Fauv. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoa, Yol. XV., p. 95. 



26. Leucitus paradiseus, Fauv. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoa, Yol. XV., p. 96. 



27. Quedius cyaneorufus. Fauv. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, Yol. XII., p. 274. 



Family. HISTERIDAE. 



28. Hololepta Batciiiana. Mars. 

 Mom, 1860, p. 588, PL 1, fig. 2. 



