4'04' STAPHYLINTDAE 



the rounded, upturned and rather broadly explanate posterior 

 angles and obscurely crenulate ; disc in the middle with broad 

 impunctate space, the rest of the surface covered with large 

 irregular, superficial punctures, but not so large as those on 

 the head. Elytra as broad as and a little longer than the 

 thorax, slightly transverse, the shoulders with a blunt back- 

 wardly directed tooth on the margin; puncturation coarse, 

 superficial and not close. Abdomen very sparingly punctured, 

 more or less coriaceous. 



Mt. Penrissen, 4000 feet, 2 specimens. 



OSORIUS RUGIFRONS Er. 



Mt. Poi, 5000 feet, 2 specimens. 



OSORIUS MJOBERGI n. sp. 



Black, shining : the vertex, supra-ocular region, temples 

 and front of the head finely, longitudinally, irregularly 

 wrinkled, the anterior margin truncate and feebly crenulate, 

 the angles rounded ; middle of base superficially, irregularly 

 punctured. Thorax rather closely covered with more or less 

 longitudinal variable punctures, at the sides with a few fine 

 longitudinal granules. AntenucT^ and legs reddish-testaceous. 

 Length 8 mm. 



8ize and build of O. diversicollis Cam., but differing in the 

 following respects : the thorax is more shining and less closely 

 sculptured with distinct more or less longitudinal punctures 

 and has at the sides some small longitudinal granules, whereas 

 in diversicollis the very irregular and confluent sculpture gives 

 a retiform appearance ; in the present species the distinct 

 longitudinal punctures are in general much less close and 

 much less confluent and there are elongate granules at the 

 sides, the disc is not suleate and a smooth median space is 

 scarcely apparent ; the sculpture of the elytra and abdomen 

 scarcely differs from that of O. diversicnUis. 



Mt. Penrissen. a single specimen. 



OSORIUS GRANULICOLLIS n. Sp. 



Black, shining : head closely strigose, in front the ridges 

 more or less broken and irregular. Thorax with close granular 

 sculpture. Elytra closely and rather finely punctured. 

 Antennae and legs reddish-testaceous. Length 6.75 mm. 

 Very smilar to 0. cribruiu Bernh. in build, but smaller, the 



