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suggested that it was introduced many years ago and has become 

 naturalized at Plymouth. Should this species not be found elsewhere 

 in Europe we shall perhaps have to adopt this view. As, however, 

 T. anglicanus belongs to one of the most neglected and unattractive 

 groups of Coleoptcra, I shall not be surprised to hear of its discovery 

 elsewhere on the coasts of Western Europe. Oathorviiocerus mariti- 

 mus, Bye, is only known from two or three very distant points of the 

 shores of Europe, and Trogophloeus is very much more neglected by 

 entomologists than Cathormiocerus is. 



The New Zealand fauna of Staphylinidce is extensive and very 

 difficult to work out. xifter M. Fauvel published his papers on the 

 Staph ylinidce of Australia, I sent to him such New Zealand species of 

 the family as I then possessed, which he named, but never described. 

 I have now examined these TrogophJoei in connection with Mr. Keys's 

 discovery, and drawn up brief descriptions of them. New Zealand 

 has but few species of Oxytelus proper — perhaps none are truly autoch- 

 thonous there — and in this respect differs strongly from Australia. 

 Other forms of Oxytelinoe will apparently prove to be numerous in 

 New Zealand, if the study of its fauna is carried out in a proper 

 manner before the peculiar forms have disappeared— a consummation 

 which Prof. Hutton tells us is only too rapidly approaching. 



TEOGOPHLCEUS, auct., suhg. n. TEOGOLINUS. 



AntenncB artlculis nullis transverisis ; caput posterius fortiter constric- 

 tum ; pronotum cecpiale, haud distincte impressum; abdomen liaud acuminatum, 

 segmento 5° latitudine 2° aquali. 



This subgenus will include T. luniger, Fauvel, from Chili, in ad- 

 dition to the three species described below. 



Teogophlceus coloeatus (Fauvel, not described), sp. n. 



Robustus, subdepressits, dense pvnctatus, stibopacus, colore variabilis, 

 rufo-testaceus, plus minus late fuscescens, elytris prothorace evidenter longio- 

 ribus. Long., 4 — 5 mm. 



Anteniise nearly 1| mm. long, rather slender, 3rd joint slightly shorter than 

 2nd, 4th to 9th each longer than broad, 10th almost as broad as long. Head broad, 

 antennal tubercles widely separated, surface between them only very slightly con- 

 vex, densely punctured. Thorax not quite so long as broad, front margin very much 

 rounded, so that it is evidently longer in the middle than at the sides, the front 

 angles very broadly rounded, greatly narrowed behind, the surface very densely 

 and evenly punctured, with only the faintest traces of depressions. Elytra one 

 and a fourth the length of the thorax, very finely and densely punctured. 



Rab. : New Zealand, Auckland (Lawson). 



This species is larger and less depressed in form than the others, 



