148 staphylinidyE, \_FaIagria. 



penultimate joints hardly transverse ; thorax cordiform, about as broad 

 in front as long^ with a broad deep longitudinal furrow ; scutellum with 

 two longitudinal raised lines ; elytra a little longer than thorax; hind 

 body slightly broader behind than before, very finely punctured, with 

 front segments longitudinally impressed and crenulate at base ; legs 

 lighter or darker testaceous. L. 2j mm. 



In haystack refuse, hotbeds, and vegetable rubbish generally; very abundant 

 throughout the greater part of England and Wales ; not so common further north ; 

 Scotland, local, Forth, Solway, and Clyde districts ; Ireland, near Dublin and pro- 

 bably widely distributed. 



r. sulcatula, Grav. Smaller and narrower than the preceding, 

 more sparingly punctured and pubescent, and therefore much more 

 shiny ; the elytra are sometimes brownish, and the legs are light tes- 

 taceous or a little reddish ; the antennae have the base lighter than in 

 F. sulrata ; besides these points, the thorax is narrower and longer in 

 proportion, and the punctuation, especially of the elytra, is distinctly 

 less close. L. 2 mm. 



Marshy places in moss, &c., also in damp haystack refuse ; local, and not nearly as 

 common as the precedinar. Cliathain, Sheerness, VValton-on-Tlnmes, Southend, 

 Shipley, near Horsham, Faversham, Cowley ; Deal; Exeter ; Wicken Fen ; Tewkes- 

 bury ; Knowle, near Birminghani ; not recorded from the northern districts or Scot- 

 land. 



r. thoracica, Curt. Eesembles the two preceding in form, but is 

 easily distinguished by its pitchy-red colour, the thorax being usually 

 light reddish testaceous, and the elytra darker than thorax but lighter 

 than head and hind body ; the antennae and legs are reddish testaceous 

 or testaceous, the former being usually a little darker after the first two 

 or three joints ; the thorax is deeply furrowed in both sexes ; the scutel- 

 lum is without the two raised lines so conspicuous in the preceding 

 species; the elytra are a little longer than the thorax ; the hind body is 

 a little less thickly punctured in front than behind and is rather widened 

 towards apex. L. 2-2} mm. 



Under stones, by sweeping, &c. ; local and somewhat widely distributed but not 

 common ; Mickleham, Birch Wood, Purley Downs, Tilgate Forest, St. Peters, Kent 

 (in decaying seed potatoes); Southend; Dover; Lulworth, Dorset; Birmingham 

 district, Edgbaston, &c. ; Bewdley ; Matlock ; Hunstanton ; Northumberland dis- 

 trict, very rsire; not recorded from Scotland. Ireland, Bray, co. Wicklow. 



r. obscura (frt9v7/o7« o//sc7^w, jMuIs. etRey). In colour this species 

 much resembles the preceding, except that tlie thor.ix is of a darker 

 reddisli colour ; the antennae are entirely reddish testaceous ; it may 

 easily be distinguished by its more transverse head, more strongly cordi- 

 form thorax, wliich is more convex and much more distinctly narrowed 

 behind, and much broader elytra, which are more transverse, and are 

 strongly impressed between the shoulders and scutellum ; the hind body 

 has the sides slightly rounded and is widest about middle ; the legs are 

 long, entirely testaceous ; in the male the thorax is distinctly furrowed 



