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dry, draw out the antennz, then mount on the extreme tip of the 
finest paper point, with only a speck of good glue. Brendel and 
Wickham have published a monograph of t the family i in the natural 
history bulletin of the lowa Acad. Sciences: Vol. 1, p. 216. But 
the beginner who attempts to name his collection, without named 
types for comparison, from this or any other available literature, 
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will have “rough sledding.” 
STAPEY Vi iD AS. 
“Rove Beetles.” 
An immense family with diversified forms and colors, that 
have the elytra.short, abdominal segments in most of the species 
fieely moveable. 
FALAGRIA. 
F. cingulata Lec. F. bilobata Say. 
HOMALOTA, 
H. trimaculata Er. H. lividipennis Mann. 
ALEOCHARA, 
A. lata Grav. A. brachypterus Fourc. 
PHILOTERMES. 
P. pilosus Kr. 
DINOPSIS. 
P. americanus Kr. 
ACYLOPHORUS. 
A. flavicollis Sack. A. pronus Erw. 
SOMATIUM. 
S. claviger Casey. 
QUEDIUS. 
QO. fulgidus Fab. ©. capucinus Grav, 
Q. sublimbatus Wak. Q. levigatus Gyll. 
O. peregrinus Grav. O. molochinus Grav. 
LISTOTROPHUS. 
S. cingulatus Grav. 
CREOPHILUS. 
C. villosus Grav. 
STAPHYLINUS. 
S. vulpinus Nordm. S. comes Lec. 
S. maculosus Grav, S. cinnamopterus Grav. 
S. mysticus Er. S. violaceus Grav. 
S. femoratus Fab. S. viridans Horn. 
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