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 ished middle-line. Head and pronotum, besides erect bristle- 

 hairs, with a fine, prostrate, sparse hair-coverintj. • . . 7. 



6. Pronotum narrowed anteridrly* or rather even breadth. Elytra 



hardly longer than pronotua; 69. Philonthus Curt. 



Pronotum distinctly narrowing posteriorly. Elytra longer than 



pronotum 70. Gafius Curt. 



7. First joint of hind tarsi distinctly longer than the claw- joint. 



Head and pronotum dull 71. Remus Holme. 



First joint of hind tarsi not longer than the claw-joint. Head 

 and pronotum more or less glistening 8. 



8. The second antennal joint thickened, as thick as the first, much 



thicker than the third (Fig. 119) 72. Actobius Fauv. 



The second antennal joint not thickened, and not thicker than the 

 third 73. Bisnius Thorns. 



65. Jenus C reophilus liannh. 



(Mannerh. Brach. 1830, Ifi; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 528; Thorns. Skand. 

 Col. II, 140; iv^uls. et Key Br^vip. 1877, 76; langlb. Kaf. f.'. II, 414. 

 - Staphylinus -enus II- Erichs. lien. Spec. Staph. 347). 



From the following species, 5mus , in similarity with which it has 

 very widely separated middle-coxae, and short, clubformedly thickened 

 antennae, it differs in that the head and pronotum at middle are naked 

 and shiny, that the antennal club only encludes the five last, strong- 

 ly thickened joints, and that the first joint of hind tarsi is stret- 

 ched, almost as long as the three following joints together. The dor- 

 sal side margin of pronotum disappears behind the fore-corner, and is 



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