Linnean Species of Staphylinus. bl 
tatus of Linneeus, but gives the biguttatus of Gravenhorst, and 
the dipustulatus of Linneeus, as distinct species. 
Sp. 16. Staph. bipustulatus. No specimen of this insect is un- 
fortunately to be found in the Linnean Cabinet. The Linnean 
description however, although very short, seems sufficiently to 
prove that it is a species of Stenus, ‘‘ corpus valde oblongum, 
magnitudine minoris pediculi, antennz clavate,” as well as the 
circumstance of Linneus bringing that and the preceding into 
juxtaposition in his latest work. In the uncertainty necessarily 
resulting from the loss of the Linnean specimen, it would be 
useless to attempt to decide upon the precise species of spotted 
Stenus to which the description was intended to apply. By 
Marsham, followed by Curtis and Stephens, it is given as a distinct 
species of Stenus. By Gyllenhal and Zetterstedt it (as well as 
the S. bipustulatus of Ljungh) is referred to the St. biguttatus, 
Fab., (Juno b. of Paykull,) which our English authors give as 
distinct. Fabricius describes a very different insect to this 
under the same name, S. bipustulatus, which belongs to the genus 
Philonthus, and which is figured by Panzer (27, 10). I mention 
this because Mr. Stephens has accidentally referred to this figure 
under the Stenus bipustulatus. 
Sp. 17. Staph. Cantharellus. This insect is also wanting in the 
Linnean Collection. It appears to have been entirely overlooked 
by subsequent authors, except Mr. Hope, who says of it, ‘‘ probably 
a Stenus, or a genus closely allied to it.’” The words of Linnzus, 
however,—* simillimus Cantharidi biguttate. Elytra abdomine 
dimidio breviora, mollia, fusco-glaucescentia, apice puncto flavo. 
Abdomen molle, glaucum,”—evidently prove that this insect does 
not belong to the Brachelytra, but rather to the genus Malthinus. 
Its size is said to be * pediculo } minus.” 
Sp. 18. Staph. littoreus is a species of the genus Conurus Steph., 
and identical with Oxyp. cellaris, Fab., Grav., Gyll., as correctly 
indicated by Erichson, who has collected numerous other syno- 
nymes in his later work. It is proper, however, to observe that 
Mr. Stephens had first suggested the identity of the two species 
in his catalogue, and that Mr. Curtis has subsequently published 
a beautiful figure of the insect, with its Linnzan name, in his 
British Entomology, pl. 762. 
Sp. 19. Staph. sanguineus. By Fabricius, and almost all suc- 
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