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 plate), otherwise as a rule evenly truncate. Back of the fore-coxae 

 the sternum is hidelike, and its spiracula, when fore-coxae are 

 bent upward, visible, occasionally (like in .^uedius et.al.) touch- 

 ed, or half covered by one under the overturned side-margins of pro- 

 notura extending small plate, Opercwlwm (Fig. 6 and 111). Elytra of 

 about same lenght as metasternum, and as a rule scarcely covering 

 the second joint of abdomen; scutellum always visible, often punc- 

 tate and haired; the abdomen sometimes of almost even breadth, and 

 again it may be posteriorly tapering, with marginate sides; it con- 

 sists of 10 Joints,-^ of which the ninth (the seventh exposed) as a 

 rule in both sexes is divided into two styliform side-pieces, it is 

 more rarely undivided (like in then of several Xantholinina ) . 

 The fore-coxae are tap- or peg-formed, and protruding, the tibiae 

 often spiniferous, all tarsi, except of Tanygnathus , 5-jointed, the 

 Joints of the fore-tarsi frequently dilated, particularly In the O • 



The larvae of several hereto pertaining genera are known, for in- 

 stance of Heterothops , Velleius , Quedius , Greophllus . Staphylinus , 

 Ocypus , Philonthus , Xantholinus , Leptacinus et. al., partly discri- 

 bed and illustrated by J. Schi^dte. 



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To this group, which us concerning includes about 130 species, 

 belong the family's largest and most robust species; they are greedy, 

 and distinctively predaceous animals, befitting their name of "Rove- 

 beetles". - The group is arranged in three divisions. 



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 •) The author calls all segments joints, translator. 



