TachimiS.] STAPHYLINIDiE. 201 



IT. Last joint of maxillary palpi oblong, not or liardly 

 longer than penultimate ; fourth joint of autenniB not 

 shorter than fifth; hind body parallel -sided ; colour 

 entirely deep black ; length 7-10 mm. (Sub-gen. 

 Drymoporus, Thomson) T. ELONG\tus, OuU. 



T. flavipes, F. Black or })itch-black, shining, with the elytra 

 ferruginous brown, more or less darker on disc, not very convex, almost 

 smooth ; head finely and thickly punctured, mouth concolorous, antennae 

 as long as head and thorax together, entirely black, with base of first 

 joints often reddish, penultimate joints hardly transverse ; thorax 

 transverse, hardly as broad behind as elytra, very finely and thickly 

 punctured, entirely black or occasionally with lateral and basal margins 

 testaceous ; scutellum with fine indistinct punctures ; elytra half as long 

 again as thorax ; hind body short, with a very long seta on sides of 

 segments 3-7 ; legs ferruginous brown or reddish, femora sometimes 

 darker. L. 5 mm. 



Male with the seventh dorsal segment of hind body furnished with 

 four blunt lobes, the intermediate pair projecting beyond the others, 

 ventral segment broadly emarginate ; female with the seventh dorsal 

 segment furnished with three lobes of equal length, long, and sharp, the 

 lateral spiniform, the central one forming a broad plate gradually and 

 sharply nan-owed to apex. 



In dung, decaying wood-frass, fungi, &c. ; usually in wooded and hilly districts ; 

 not common ; Bishops Wood (G. R. Waterhouse), in the wet sappy sawdust round 

 the stumps of felled oaks ; Hampstead and Croydon (Shepherd) ; Wimbledon 

 (Power); Glanvilles Wootton; Devonshire, very rare; Sutton Park, Birmingham; 

 Manchester district ; Northumberland district, banks of Irthing, very rare ; Scotland, 

 " in dung, rare," Tweed, Solway, Tay, and Dee districts. 



T. rufipennis« Gyll. A large and conspicuous species that cannot 

 be mistaken for any other ; shining black with the elytra bright red, 

 the apical margin and suture being more or less infuscate ; head finely 

 and thickly punctured, black, with mouth red, mandibles darker; antennae 

 as long as head and thorax united, with penultimate joints a little longer 

 in male than in female ; thorax transverse, considerably narrowed in 

 front, with sides moderately rounded, very finely punctured ; scutellum 

 sparingly punctured, pitchy red ; elytra a third as long again as thorax, 

 rather strongly and thickly punctured ; hind body strongly narrowed 

 behind, almost as strongly punctured as elytra ; legs pitchy or brownish 

 red, with tarsi lighter. L. 6|-7 mm. 



Seventh dorsal segment of hind body in male Avith a central lobe 

 furnished with obtuse short teeth, the lateral being blunter than the 

 others, in female with four narrow spiniform lobes or projections, of 

 which the lateral pair are much the longest, seventh ventral segment 

 in female with large narrow projecting lobes, which are visible from 

 above. 



In dung, vegetable refuse, dead birds, &c. ; also occasionally under bark, but this 

 is very probably accidental ; very rare ; North Devon, Barnstaple (Saunders) ; Chiltera 



