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latior, ab apice fere ad medium rotundato ampliatus dein retrorsum 

 oblique modice attenuatus angulis acutis, vix recurvis, basi ipsa 

 apice tertio angustiore ; elytra suboblonga, basi recta humeris 

 distinctis, prothorace fere quadruplice longiora stria juxta suturali 

 unica levi in singulo praedita, arcu posticali obliterate. 



Long. l^-H ^"^- ; lat. f mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia. G. A. K. Marshall. 



Family STAPHYLINID^. 



Gen. STAPHYLINUS, Linn. 



Staphylinus fauveli, n. sp. 

 Plate VI., fig. 12. 



Niger, capite prothoraceque supi-a violaceo-cupreis, conferte pro- 

 fundeque foveolato punctatis, punctis umbilicatis, pube nigra ad 

 latera rigidiora obsitis, illo linea supra basali brevissima levigata 

 notato ; scutello, atro, velutino ; elytris confertim punctulatis, pube 

 sub-aurata vel aurichalcea pilis nigris admixtis vestitis plagisque 

 velutinis duabus basalibus prope scutellum sitis notatis ; abdomine 

 atro-tomentoso, segmentis dorsalibus 2, 3, 7, plaga lata, segmentis 

 abdominalibus omnibus macula albida sericea utroque ornatis ; 

 antennis nigris, articulis basalibus tribus flavo-testaceis, corpore 

 subtus pedibusque longe atro pubescentibus, pube tibiarum tarso- 

 umque anticorum nonnihil flava. 



Mas. Abdominis segmento 6 supra profunde emarginato, infra 

 longe fisso, 5 subtus fossa triangulari profunda in medio sita. 



This splendid species, of which I have seen an example of each sex, 

 is, judging from the description, allied to S. procerus, Gab., but it 

 differs in the colouring of the elytra and the absence of a lateral 

 silvery patch on the dorsal part of the 7th abdominal segment. In 

 the J the 6th dorsal segment is deeply emarginate at apex, and the 

 ventral one is very deeply incised and valve-like, the 5th ventral 

 has a deep, median, sub-triangular pit ; in the 2 the silvery patches 

 on the abdominal segments are distinct on the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments only, and the pile on the elytra is more brassy than in 

 the 3. 



Length 28-32 mm. ; width 8-8| mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury), G. A. K. Marshall ; 

 (Umtali), A. Bodong. 



