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3. T. PUSiLLUs, Grav. 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph., 811. — Heer, Fn. Col. Ilelv., 



i., 202. — Aleochara pusilla, Gyll. Ins. Suec, \i., 409. — 



Tsenosoma pusillurrij Stejyh. Illust, Mcmd., v., 323. — 



Oxytelus fuliginosus, Gyll. Ins. Suec.,ii., 460. — Carpalimus 



picipennis, Kirhy, Steph., Illust., Maud., v., 325? 



In similar places with the preceding. Long Benton. — T. J. 



B. Budle, North Sunderland, Wooler water, and the banks of 



the Till.—/. H. May— July. 



Sec. 2. OXYTELINI COPROPHILINI, ^ncAson.* 



136. CoPROPHiLus, Latreille. 



1. C. STRIATULUS, Fah. 



Steph. Illust., Mand., v., 345. — Erichson, Gen. et Spec. 



Staph., 816. — Heer, Fn. Col. Helv., i., 199. — Omalium 



rugosum, Gyll. Ins. Suec, ii., 233. — Anthobium rugosum, 



Boisd. et Lacord. Faun. Ent. Paris, 469. 



Rare. From the sea coast at Hartlepool. — J. H. Under sea 



weed, near Sunderland. — Mr. W. Peacoch. 



137. MicRALYMMA, Westwood. 



1. M. BREVIPENNE, Gyll. 



Erich. Gen. et Spec. Staph., 820. — Omalium brevipenne, 



Gyll. Ins. Su.ec., ii., 234. — Micralymma Johnstonis, Westw. 



Mag. of Zool. and Bot., ii., 130, pi. iv., f. 1. — Steph. 



Manual, No. 3414. 



Under stones between tide marks, between Budle and the 



Heather House, and more sparingly in the fissures of a shady 



sandstone, near Monkshouse, in July. — J. H. 



Mr. Halliday remarks that this species was described about 

 the period of Linnaeus. I have not been able to find its earliest 

 appellation thus referred to. Schiodte has described a second 

 species from Greenland, with terrestrial habits. 



138. Syntomium, Curtis. 

 1. S. ^NEUM, Muller. 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph., 821. — Heer, Fn. Col. Helv., 

 i., 199. — Omalium seneum, Gyll. Ins. Suec, iv., 466. — 

 * Schiodte is of opinion that this section should be united to the Omalides. 



