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insect, lie considers that as one can see neither the legs nor antennae 

 (I failed to reset it) no useful opinion can be formed on this specimen. 

 It appears to me that he is incorrect in this, as the shape of the insect 

 is the principal character. Bedel (Fn. Seine, vi, p. 151) separates the 

 two species thus : — 



Iliud-body heart-shaped, cf anterior femora distinctly fringed beneath. 



T.jimcetts lleich. 



Ilind-body elongate, in part parallel-sided. S anterior femora without 

 distinct fringe T. haematopics Gyll. 



The two insects given to me by Mr. Edwards as the junceus of 

 his table, appear to correspond with the grey form of that species, so 

 named for me by M. Bedel. T. haemaio'pus has been unfortunate in its 

 synonj'my, having been mistaken by M. Chas. Brisout (Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Er. 18(32, p. 773) iov junceus lleich. (Bedel, Fn. Seine, idem). 



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PLAGIARTHRINA FORDHAMIANA : A NEW SUBGENUS AND 

 SPECIES OF STAPHYLINIDAE. 



BY J. H. KETS, F.E.S. 



Plagiartiirina, subgen. nov. 



Tarsal formula 4, 5, 5. Head orbicular or suborbicular. Antennae stout, 

 with joints 6-10 transverse (fig. 1). Maxillary palpi four-jointed. Labial 

 palpi four-jointed, the last b^^ing minute, rod-like, attached to apex of third 

 joint and set obliquely outwards (fig. 2). 



This new subgenus resembles Jifefaxj/a, but differs from it by the 

 four-jointed labial palpi, the thickened antennae, and the shape of 

 the head, which is lightly rounded and narrowed from posterior margin 

 of eyes to base ; and the temples are not swollen. If a spermatheca 

 should prove to exist in the female, Plagiartlirum will have to be 

 removed from Mctaxi/a Muls. and Re}^ which includes M. eJongatula 

 Grav. and its numerous allies, in which no organ of the kind has been 

 found. 



Metaxya (^Plagiarthri)ia) fordhamiana, sp. n. 



Body linear, parallel-sided, puncto-pubescent, with fine ground-sculpture, 

 giving the insect a moderately greasy lustre. Head almost black, about as 

 long as broad, with an obsolete impression on vertex, narrower than thorax, its 

 base about three-fifths the width of apex of thorax, temples bordered. Eyes 

 short-oval, not prominent. Antennae pitchy, with first two joints and base of 

 third ferruginous, robust, rather long; first joint stout, longer than second, 



