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Sp. 9. Staph. obtusus is a species of Tachyporus, as indicated 
by Gravenhorst, Stephens and Erichson; the last of whom gives 
it as synonymous with Oxyporus analis, Fab. Stephens also gives 
the latter as a variety of it. In the Linnean specimen the head 
and abdomen are yellow, and the black base of the elytra does 
not extend more than two-fifths of the length of those organs. 
Sp. 10. Staph. lignorum appears to have been overlooked by all 
subsequent authors, except Mr. Hope, who considers it to be a 
species of Tachyporus (Coleopt. Man. 3, p. 57). The Linnzean 
specimen is however a species of Tachinus, of the size of T. sub- 
terraneus, being 23 lines long, with the head black; the antenne 
fuscous; the thorax castaneous, with two small discoidal dark 
spots wide apart beyond the middle of the disc, and the lateral 
margins paler; the elytra luteous, with the suture darker; the 
abdomen brown, the margins of the segments, and the large 
terminal segment, paler luteous-brown, except the latter, which is 
darker towards the base; the feet are luteo-fulvous. 
It is difficult to conceive that this description can agree with 
that given in the Fauna Sueceia, in which we read “ Corpus totum 
lineare longiusculum;” but the further character, ‘“ Thorax 
versus elytra duobus punctis excavatis notatus,” as well as the 
colours of the elytra, evidently and satisfactorily prove that the 
specimen still preserved in the Linnzean Cabinet, and from which 
the above description is drawn, is the true Linnzan species. 
Sp. 11. Staph. Silphoides is also a species of Tachinus, synony- 
mous with the 7’. suturalis of Gravenhorst and Panzer (18, fig. 20). 
The Linnzan specimen has the discoidal mark on each of the 
elytra of a reverse pear-shape, the major part of the elytra being 
fulvous. 
Sp. 12. Staph. subterraneus is also a species of Tachinus, as 
correctly indicated by Gravenhorst, Stephens and Erichson. The 
specimen preserved in the Linnean Cabinet is 23 lines long. It 
exactly accords with the Linnzan description, although the specific 
ticket is in the handwriting of the younger Linnzus. 
Sp. 13. Staph. flavescens is a species which all recent Ento- 
mologists have failed in recognizing. Fabricius gives it as identical 
with his Staph. flavescens, which, according to Gyllenhal and 
Erichson, is a species of Philonthus, namely, Ph. discoideus. The 
former of these authors observes upon the last named species, 
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