PhilonthuS.'] STAPHYLINIDJl. 267 



In moss, manure heaps, dead leaves, flood refuse, uuder stones, &c. ; not common ; 

 Sheeruess, Maidstone, Catcrliam, Esher, Duhvicli, Til<,^ato Forest, Birdbrook (Essex), 

 Abbey Wood, Toubridge ; Hastings; Devonshire; Yardley, Knowle, and PJdgbastoii, 

 near Birmingham; Repton ; Nortliumburhuid district, local and rare ; Scotland, 

 scarce, Tweed, Forth, and Solway districts. 



P. umbratilis, Grav. (stihfuscus, Gyll.). Rather parallel-sided, 

 shining black, with the elytra bronze-black ; head orbicular or sliglitly 

 subquadrate, about as broad as thorax in male, narrower in female ; 

 antennse long, dark with base lighter, penultimate joints longer than 

 broad ; thorax at base a little narrower than elytra, with sides almost 

 straight ; elytra slightly longer than thorax, finely, thickly, and some- 

 what asperately punctured ; hind body finely and thickly punctured, 

 seventh segment less thickly ; legs lighter or darker testaceous, with the 

 femora, especially the posterior ones, darker, anterior tarsi strongly dilated 

 in male, less strongly in female. L. 6 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body deeply and 

 sharply excised, with the excision furnished with rather broad membra- 

 nous border behind, sixth segment broadly emarginate. 



In moss, &c. ; occasionally at sap ; local and not common ; London district, rare, 

 "Whitstable, Maidstone, Eltham, Wimbledon, Esher, Tonbridgc, Colney Hatch, Merton 

 (Surrey); Guestling, near Hastings ; Leicestershire; Repton; Edgbaston ; Knovvle ; 

 Stretford, Manchester (banks of Mersey); Liverpool; Northumberland district, 

 widely spread, but not common j Scotland, Lowlands, scarce, Solway, Tweed, Forth, 

 and Tay districts. 



This species somewhat resembles the succeeding ones, but may be 

 distinguished (apart from the dilated tarsi of the male) by the finely 

 punctured elytra and the lighter colour of the legs ; in the latter point 

 it resembles P. fimetarius, which may at once be separated from it by its 

 smaller and differently shaped head, with large central depression, and 

 more coarsely punctvired elytra. 



P. cephalotes, Grav. Somewhat parallel-sided, shining black, with 

 the elytra bronze ; head transverse, subquadrate, varying in size, but 

 sometimes broader than thorax in male ; in the female it is narrower • 

 antennce moderately long, pitch-black, with apex often lighter, with 

 the penultimate joints about as broad as long, or a little longer than 

 broad (this, as in many other species, depends on the view taken of them, 

 whether from above, or from the side) ; thorax a little narrower at base 

 than elytra, with sides almost straight ; elytra slightly longer than thorax 

 rather strongly punctured, more so than in P. tmhrafilL^, but evidently 

 less than in F. sordidus ; hind body finely and rather thickly punctured, 

 with the seventh segment less closely punctured, apex of ventral segments 

 reddish; legs pitch-brown with the tarsi lighter, anterior tarsi simple in 

 both sexes. L. 6-7 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body rather deeply and 

 angularly excised, the sixth subemarginate. 



