(Paje 386) 

 and fine hair-vestiture; elytra and abdomen rather shiny, with short 

 and rather dense black hair; antennal tip, maxillary palpi, and tar- 

 si reddish-brown. 



The head is square, with slightly roundedoff temple-corners, as 

 broad as pronotum, and together v^ith this with scattered, and rath«r 

 robust punctation, with interspersed finer punctures, and with smooth 

 middle-line; the antennae rather slender, not thickened outwardly, 

 and their next-last ^oints not transverse; pronotum a little narrow- 

 er and shorter than elytra, which together with abdomen is very den- 

 sely, but not very finely punctate, and has a few single, scattered, 

 larger bristle-bearing punctures. Posterior margin of the fifth free 

 dorsal abdomonal ^oint with a very fine, yet distinct, li^jht cuticle- 

 suture. L. 14-18 mm. 



In the O^ the distal joint of maxillary palpi is also feebly axe- 

 shaped (Fig. lis) and the sixth ventral abdominal joint broadly emar- 

 ginate at tip. 



Distributed in Kurope and North Asia; here it rare or local, more 



frequent in the islands then in Jutland, and most often found at the 



shore under rocks and seaweed. (Aarhus, Haderslev, Odense, laes^, Kor- 



6):(r, Amager, M,oen, F alster-Lolland, Langeland, Bornholm) . 



16. St. pedator iravh. 



(aravh. Micr. 163; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 415; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 561; Thoms. Skand. Col. II, 149; LIuls. et Rey Br^vip. 1877, 175; 

 ianglb. Kaf. Ivi. II, 435). 



7rotn the precedin-; species, to which it closely allied, it is sep- 



-90- 



Fig. 112. Head of Staphylinus Jcypus ; ater Jravh. viewed from 

 ventral side. p.l. labial palpus, p. max. maxillary palpus. 



