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II. Oji some Coleoptera/)"om the Hawaiian Islands. 

 Vtj D. Sharp. 



[Read February 4th, 1880.] 



This paper is devoted to a description of the new species 

 of Staphylinidce. found by Mr. Blackburn in the Sand- 

 wich Islands; they are twenty-nine in number; all are 

 small — most of them minute — insects, but they comprise 

 nevertheless some very interesting forms. It is pretty 

 clear that the autochthonous (to use an expression of 

 Mr. Wollaston's) fauna, in this family comprises two or 

 three groups of rather numerous species, and I anticipate 

 that of these groups other species will be brought to light, 

 if Mr. Blackburn be able, as we all hope he will be, to 

 continue his researches in this isolated insular group. 



Falagria currax, n. sp. Variegata, nitidula, subtiliter 

 punctulata ; antennis sat elongatis rufo-obscuris, basi 

 apiceque testaceis ; capite thoraceque rufescentibus, sub- 

 tilissime punctulatis, hoc profunde canaliculato ; elytris 

 fuscis, humeris apiceque testaceis ; abdomine nigricante, 

 segmentis basalibus testaceis; pedibus fusco-testaceis. 

 Long. Corp. extens. 3 mm. 



Antennae 1^ mm. long, being rather longer than head 

 and thorax, the three or four basal joints yellow, the 

 following ones dusky-red, the apical one or two again 

 yellowish; joints 8 — 10 each not quite so long as broad. 

 Head reddish, shining and almost impunctate, and desti- 

 tute of fovea or channel. Thorax of the same coloiu' as 

 the head, shining and almost impunctate, scarcely so 

 broad as the head, very deeply channelled along the 

 middle. Elytra rather short, of an infuscate yellow 

 colour, Avith the base (especially at the shoulders) and the 

 hind margin paler yellow ; they are shining, their punc- 

 tuation being very fine and indistinct ; they have an im- 

 pression or fovea on the suture immediately behind the 

 scutellum ; the scutellum itself is reddish and destitute of 

 channel or carina. The hind body is black, with the 

 basal two segments yellowish, the dorsal plates very finely 

 and indistinctly punctured. The elongate and slender 



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