132 Mr. D. Sharp's dnUributions to the 



two irrpg-ular rows of larg(! ])unctiircs, leaving a broad 

 space between them free from jninctiircs ; scattered about 

 the sides are also numerous large irregular ]junctures, 

 es])ecially munerous towards the front. Scutellum closely 

 punctured. I'^lytra longer than the thorax, moderately 

 closely and fuiely jiunctured. Hind liody black, with the 

 extreme hind margin of the 5tli segment, and the whole 

 of the Gth and 7th segments, reddish-yellow ; the punctua- 

 tion moderately close and fine. The legs are stout, })itchy 

 black, with the tarsi pitchy red ; the four hinder tibial 

 strongly spinulose. 



Ega ; one specimen, ? . 



10. PhilontliHS annlis, Er. 



Parii, Obydos, Tapajos, Ega, St. Paulo. 



This a])])ears to be one of the most widely distributed 

 and abundant of the South American Stuphi/linidcc ; one 

 of Mr. Bates's specimens is labelled as found in dung. 



The male characters are omitted by Erichson ; in that 

 sex the Gth segment of the hind body has, on the under- 

 side on its middle, a small fovea, from Avhlch projects a 

 slender tuft of elongate hairs, and the follo\\ing plate has 

 a deep but rather narrow notch at the extremity : the front 

 tarsi are moderately dilated in each sex, in the male only 

 slightly more than in the female. 



11. Staphylinus hi color, Lap. (^Philonthus hicolor, Er.). 

 Ega and St. Paulo. 



The male characters in this species also have not been 

 recorded ; in that sex the ventral plate of the Gth segment 

 of the hind body has, near the base in the middle, a trans- 

 verse impunctate space, in front of which is another trans- 

 A'crse space which is vciy slightly dejiressed and finely 

 punctured ; the hind margin of the 7th segment is very 

 slightly emarginate in the middle ; the front tarsi are 

 rather broadly dilated and are apparently similar in the 

 two sexes. 



PlIILOTHALPUS. 



The species referred to this genus are at jjresent nine in 

 number, and are confined to South America ; they were 

 most of them known to Erichson, and divided by him 

 among his genera StapJiijIinus and PhiloJithus. Three 

 others, considered by me as new, arc here added. 



