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segment distinctly narrower from base to apex ; surface finely, sparsely and 

 unevenly punctate, beneath rather densely so, especially toward base. Length 

 3.0 mm. 



Flovida. Mr. E. A. Schwarz. 



This species was confounded by LeConte with basalts, from which 

 it differs in many conspicuous characters, and chiefly in its much 

 longer, more slender antenna?, these in basalts being very short, the 

 outer joints very strongly transverse and more compactly connected, 

 the eleventh very short, obtuse and much wider than long, the fifth 

 wider than long; it also differs in its much more finely and densely 

 punctate elytra, and in its decidedly greater size. Basalts is quite 

 uniform in size, the series of six specimens before me offering l)ut 

 slight variation in this respect, the length being 2.0-2.2 mm., and 

 not as great even as the minimum length (2.5 mm.) given by Dr. 

 LeConte in the original description. The present description is 

 taken from the male, and it has been compared with the same sex 

 of basalts. 



The structure of the under surface of the prothorax is nearl}' as 

 in basalis, the coxal fissures being very short and entirely closed. 

 The mentum is flat, with a large deep impression in the middle near 

 the base. 



Note. 



In the list of Staphylinidse published since the date of the Munich Catalogue, 

 recently compiled by M. Arit. Duvivier, appears the name Bledius LeContei 

 Duviv., for B. phi/tosinus Lee, under the supposition that the latter name was 

 pre-occupied, but as LeConte's name was published in 1877, and plajtosiiius 

 Fauvel not until 1878 (1. c. p. 101), it is evidently the latter which should 

 fall and not pht/tosinus Lee. The name Bledius LeContei has recently been given 

 by Dr. Sharp to a Mexican species (Biol. Cent.-Amer., Coleop. I, Pt. 2, p. 6S5). 

 The Fauvelian species must be considered therefore as still unnamed. 



APLODEIillS Steph. 

 Haploderus Lac, Lee, etc. — PIdrtomeus Er., Lee. 



The species of Aploderus^ are comparatively few in number and 



1 The alteration of the original name Aploderas as published by Stephens, 

 to Haploderus, is unwarranted by any rule of nomenclature based upon solid 

 reason. To legitimize the changing of a name once given by an author, even 

 by the purists, is to open the way to unending confusion, and should not be 

 encouraged. The sense of the majority of modern authors seems to favor, or 



