IGO !Mr. 1). Sharp's Confribiitions to the 



but furnisliod Avitli a single row of fine seta?. A male 

 individual iroin Para a<j;ree.s with the males from Ega, but 

 has the antenna? a little stouter and the ])enultimate joints 

 more strongly transverse, and the middle joints each a 

 little produced on the inner side. 1 consider this indi- 

 vidual is only a variety of B. (lecij)ie}is. 



6. Staphylinus funnosus, Grav. 



Para, Tapajos, Ega. 



This is one of the commonest and most widely distri- 

 buted of the New World StaphylinidcB ; it extends from 

 Pennsylvania to Rio de Janeiro. 



7. BeloiiucJms chjiieatus, n. sp. Niger, nitidus, ano 

 testaceo, prothorace serie dorsali 5-punctato, lateribus sub- 

 rectis, abdomine minus crebre punctato. Long. corp. 5 lin. 



Mas : clypeo antice vere bidentato, femoribus posticis 

 uniseriatim spinulosis, abdomine scgniento 7° A'entrali 

 apice leviter emarginato. 



Fem. latet. 



Allied to B. decipiens, but distinguished by its more 

 sparingly punctiu'cd hind body and the two teeth of the 

 clypeus in the male. The antennje are short and stout, 

 black, with the base pitchy ; 3rd joint slightly longer than 

 2nd ; 4th joint small ; 5th broader than 4th, but also small; 

 6th joint transverse, 7 — 10 rather strongly transverse. 

 Mandibles nearly black; palpi pitchy. Head about as 

 broad as the thorax, black and shining, Avith two short, 

 stout teeth (in the $ if not in the 2 ) jirojecting forwards 

 but not upwards from the front part ; between the eyes 

 with four punctures, also with four or five other jmnctures 

 close to to the back part of the eyes, and a few others near 

 the hinder angles. Thorax narrower than the elytra, 

 quadrate, about as long as broad, not narrowed behind, 

 and scarcely sinuate at the sides, the front angles not 

 rounded ; it is black and shining, has on each side the 

 middle a dorsal row of five ])uncturcs — of these the hind 

 one is a little the more remote, — and with foiu* or five other 

 punctures near the front angles. Scutelhun rather coarsely 

 punctured. Elytra a little longer than the thorax, black 

 and shining, rather finely and sparingly punctured. Hind 

 body black, with the hind portion of the 6th and the whole 

 of the 7th segment reddish-yellow; it is rather coarsely and 



