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left hand one being attenuate and tootld(;ss ; the labial palpi are sub- 

 acuminate at apex ; at present two European species are contained in 

 the genus ; one specinnni only, belonging to the originally de.scril)ed 

 species, has been found in Britain. 



B. Kraatzi, Fuss. (Saulciji, Kraatz). Depressed, nigro-piceous, 

 shining, with grey pubescence, elytra and legs pitchy-brown ; head large 

 and broad, transversely subquadrate ; forehead deejjly channelled ; 

 thorax narrower than the head and elytra, deejily foveolate at the base, 

 and obsoletely channelled; hind body very finely punctured. L. 3 mm. 



Very rare; a single specimen was taken by Dr. Power at Mickleliam on July 13, 

 1862, and remains unique as British ; it was captured by evening' sweeping; when 

 Dr. Power introduced bis insect as British, only seven specimens were known to exist 

 in the Continental collections, one from near Paris, and six from Germany, which 

 latter were taken under half-dried dung and the carcase of a toad. 



FAXiAG-RZA, Stephens. 



This genus, as it stands at present, comprises about sixty species, 

 which are distributed over most parts of the world ; Dr. Sharp, however, 

 (Biol. Cent. Am. Staphylinidae, p. 232) is of opinion that it must 

 undergo dismemberment, as examination proves that those European 

 forms for which the name was first proposed possess the peculiarity of 

 having the prosternum behind the front coxae entirely corneous, whereas 

 in many other forms that have been included in the genus it is entirely 

 membranous ; these latter, therefore, must be removed from the genus 

 Fulagria ; as thus constituted the genus is not found in South America, 

 but is otherwise widely distributed ; the species occur in marshy places, 

 under vegetable refuse, in hotbeds, &c., and are, as a rule, easily dis- 

 tinguished by their large heads and deeply sulcate thorax ; four species 

 are found in Britain which may be distinguished as follows : — 



I. Scutellum with two parallel longitudinal raised lines, placed near together, and 



presenting the appearance of a deep furi'ow ; thorax very deeply sulcate. 

 i. Elytra longer than thorax ; form broader; elytra very 



closely punctured, duller F. sulcata, Payk. 



ii. Elytra rather shorter than thorax; form narrower; 



elytra less closely punctured, shining F. SULCATtJLA, Grav. 



II. Scutellum without raised lines. 



Thorax not strongly cordiform, gradually narrowed to 



base ; elytra almost square, without impression between 



shoulders and scutellum ; thorax sulcate in both sexes . F. TnOEACiCA, Curl. 



Thorax very strongly cordiform, very much narrowed 



at base; elytra plainly transverse, strongly impressed 



between shoulders and scutellum; thorax sulcate in male, 



convex and smooth in female F. obscuea, Grav. 



T. sulcata^ Payk. Pitch-black, rather shining, very finely and 

 thickly punctured, finely pixbescent ; head large, almost straight at sides, 

 and narrowed in front of eyes, antennae about as long as head and thorax 

 together, brownish, with base a little lighter, slightly thickened with the 



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