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1. S. hirtus Linn. 



(Linne Syst. Nat. 1758, 421; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 431; :;en. 

 Spec. Staph. 346; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 531; Ihoms. Skand. Ool.II, 140; 

 Muls. et Fey Brevip. 1877. 73; Jang lb. Kaf. tl. II, 416). 



Black; elytra, pronotum, and abdomen often feebly bronze-glist- 

 ening; the body covered entirely \^ith a furry, more or less dense vest- 

 iture, which on the head, the larger part of pronotum, and the last 

 three abdominal joints are golden yellow, the pronotal posterior mar- 

 gin, the anterior part of elytra, and of abdomen is black, and the po- 

 sterior half part of elytra grayish-yellow; the surface of ventral si- 

 de is often bluish or violet glistening. L. 2C-25 mm. 



In the <T the head is broader than in the Q , the trochanter of the 

 hind legs are long and at tip with hook-formed elongation, the hind- 

 most tibiae slightly curved. 



Distributed, but as a whole rare here, most frequent on high, 

 open fields at fresh cow-manure, but also at carrion, and at rotten 

 fungi; it hunts flies, Aphodians and other insects. I have seen it 

 most numerously on sandy fields at Skajen, where the acres are fer- 

 tilized with rotten fish and fish-v.aste; it is generally found sin- 

 gly. 



67. ienus Ontholestes Janglb. 



(CJanglb. Kaf. Mitteleurp. II, 417. - Lei stotrophus Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 532; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 81. - Schizochilus Thoms. Skand. 

 Col. II, 141. - Staphylini'E genus VI, Erichs. ^ien. Spec. Stap^. 35©). 



From Staphylinus . to which this genus is closely allied, it is 



separated in that the mesosternuin at middle-line is finely carinated. 



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