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 ners rather densely and finely punctate, and with a row of 5-6 lar- 

 ger bristle-bearing punctures at middle. Abdomen with fine and very 

 ■ dense punctation. L. 15-22 mm. 



In the o^the head as a rule is larger than in the O the sixth ven- 

 tral abdominal joint is deeply emarginated at tip. 



Cistributed in Europe, and everywhere in this country common at 

 carrion, manure, and rotten plants. 



A rare variety, ciliaris Steph., in which the scutellum, the tip 

 of elytra, abdominal tip, and margins of joints are golden yellow 

 haired, is found in Scotland and Germany, but not heretofore found in 

 this country. 



66, Jenus Emus Curt. 



(Curtis Brit. Ent. XII, 1835; ?:raatz Ins. D. II, 530; Thorns. Skand. 

 Col. II, 139; I.:uls. et Fey Brd'oip. 1877, 71; Janglb. Kaf. K. II, 4ie. 

 - Staphylinus jenus I. Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 346). 



Body very robust, broad and thick, remarkable by its furry, humb- 

 lebee-like vestiture; head very larga, as broad as pronotum; eyes small 

 and placed high; the antennae short, scarcely longer than the head, 

 their first joint scape-formedly elongated, the last six joints con- 

 siderably broader than the preceding, whereby the antennae become feeb- 

 ly club-formed; pronotum posteriorly rounded to form a half circle, 

 narrower than the elytra, their dorsal sidemargin anteriorly contigu- 

 ous V. ith the ventral side-margin; abdomen of even breadth; legs ro- 

 bust, furred; tibiae finely spiniferous; fyre-tarsi strongly, the oth- 

 ers feebly dilated; first joint of hind-tarsi short, only a little lon- 

 ger than the following. 



This genus encludes only 1 species, distributed in the entire Europe, 



