46 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the 
Linnzus, show that G. olens was the insect he had chiefly in view. 
In the Systema Nature, however, he endeavoured to get over the 
difficulty by stating, ‘ Junior undique tomentosus per elytra et 
abdomen cum fascia cinerea elytrorum et abdominis. Provectior 
glaber et totus ater evadit.” Hence Gravenhorst supposed that 
Linnzus could not have known the species figured by Geoffroy 
(G. olens), which appears to be rare in Sweden; but that the indi- 
vidual which he considered as Provectior was an abraded C. max- 
allosus. This opinion, which Mr. Shuckard has recently reiterated, 
(El. Brit. Ent. p. 116,) and which seems supported by the Linnzean 
character, ‘‘ glaber et totus ater,” a character which far better 
agrees with an abraded maaillosus than an ordinary olens, is never- 
theless incorrect, there being no abraded specimen of maxillosus 
in the Linnzan Cabinet ; whilst an ordinary specimen of mazillosus, 
and one of olens, are both stuck through the Linnean label,* the 
latter placed first. 
Sp. 4. Staph. erythropterus. ‘This species has been regarded 
by Fabricius and most subsequent authors as composed of those 
large specimens of Staphylinus, with red elytra and legs, which 
have the hind margin of the prothorax golden coloured, and the 
scutellum black. The expression of Linnzeus, “ Est inter majores, 
non maximos numerandus,” is in favour of this opinion, these 
individuals being larger than any of the allied species. The 
antennz of these insects are however red at the base and brown 
at the apex, whereas Linnzeus says, “ Antenne nigre basi et 
apice rufescentes ;” which character, in conjunction with an 
entirely black prothorax and golden scutellum, is found in the 
St. castanopterus of Gravenhorst and Gyllenhal. Dr. Erichson 
accordingly gives the latter species as the true Linnean St. ery- 
thropterus, and the St. erythropterus of Fabricius and most other 
authors under the name of St. cesareus of Cederheim. The 
typical Linnzean specimen however, being that which is stuck 
through the ticket in the handwriting of Linnzeus, is of the largest 
size, with a golden posterior margin to the thorax. The antenne 
are brown, with the base alone red. ‘There are two speci- 
mens agreeing in these characters placed side by side, and a 
third specimen is added, which, however, has the prothorax 
entirely black, and the scutellum golden coloured, or the St. 
castanopterus. 
* Another insect is also stuck through the Linnean label agreeing with the 
typical specimen in size, but having the disc of the thorax destitute of the two 
rows of impressed punctures. 
