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It is as a rule considerably smaller, narrower and of more even 



breadth; antennae are shorter, predominantly yellow, only tov-ard 



tip brownish; mouth, mouth-parts, and legs black; eyes twice as lonj 



as temples; head and pronotum with rather coarse, very dense punc- 



tation; pronotum posteriorly with an abbreviated shiny middle-line, 



its sides not impressed, and behind middle scarcely Incurved; elytra 



very little longer than pronotum, shorter than in nebulosus ; abdomen 



feebly tapering; posterior margin of its fifth free dorsal joint with 



a fine, whitish cu ticle-margination. L. 10-15 mm. 



At dung and carrion, preying on smaller insects. Distributed in 



Europe, North Asia, and North America, and not rare in this country. 



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68. Jenus Staphylinus Linn. 



(Linne Syst. Nat. Sd. X, 175B, 421; langlb. Kaf. Kitteleurp. II, 

 419. - Staphylinus 4- 0cypus Kraatz Ins. D. II, 536, 56G. - Trichoderma 

 -f- Platydracus -j- Staphylinus -^ -^oerius Ocypus Tasgius Anodus .horns. 

 Skand. Col. II, 142 - 150. - Tr ichoderma -j- Staphyl inus -^ Platydracu s4 - 

 Ocypus -f- Tasgius -^ Anodus Uuls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 89-181). 



Body more or less elongated, of rather even breadth, haired, in 

 some species the hair is felt-like, or (in Jen. Staphylinus L. , Kraatz) 

 adorned with golden glistening hair-spots, particularly on abdominal 

 joints, the head varies in form; square, triangular, oviform, or roun- 

 ded-off, with short, punctate neck, and larger or smaller, oval, obli- 

 quely placed eyes, and rather short antennae, which sometiraes are 

 slightly thickened outwardly, and again they may be of almost even 

 thickness throughout, or as in the last four subgenera (Jen. Ocypus 



. -70- 



*)or membranous- 



