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the genus Doliops (D. curculionides), and greatly resembles that 
insect in size and form; but the thorax has marks, or lines, 
instead of spots. Its colouring is more brilliant. 
VII. On the Linnean Species of Staphylinus, a Genus of 
Coleopterous Insects. By J. OQ. Westwoop, F.LS. &c. 
[Read 5 Oct. 1840; 1 March, 1841.] 
My attention having been directed by Dr. Erichson of Berlin 
(the author of avery valuable work upon the family Stuphylinide) 
to several of the species of that family described by Linnzus, and 
preserved in the Linnzan Cabinet of Insects, with the view of 
clearing up the synonymy of such species, I have extended my 
examination to the whole of the twenty-six species described by 
the great Swede, including several species in addition to those of 
which Dr, Erichson requested my opinion. 
Sp. 1. Staphylinus hirtus is the Emus hirtus of Leach; Sta- 
phylinus hirtus of most continental authors, 
Sp. 2. Staph. murinus is a species of Staphylinus (subgenus 
Trichoderma, Steph.) The Linnzan specimen is nearly 3 of an 
inch long (‘‘ Insectum inter majores, non maximos,” Linn.) It 
is the St. murinus of Olivier, 3, 15, pl. 6, fig. 51, 6, and Panzer, 
pl. 66, fig. 16. By Fabricius, and all other English and foreign 
authors, it is given under the name of Staph. nebulosus, Fabr. 
The Staph. murinus of Fabricius, Marsham, Stephens, Erichson, 
&c., is a smaller species. De Geer has confounded both under his 
first species of Staphylinus, but has figured the true S¢. murinus. 
Sp. 3. Staph. maxillosus. Under this name Linnzus confounded 
two distinct species, namely, the Creophilus maxillosus of Kirby, 
and the Goerius olens of Leach. From the short specific character 
given in the F. Su. and the Syst. N. it would appear that Linnzus 
intended the former insect as the type of the species; but the 
description given in the former work, “ Hic maximos inter nostros 
est.—Elytra atra in quibusdam cineritie levi nebulosa,” as well as 
the figure of Geoffroy and description of Ray, referred to by 
