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FOR THE YEAR 1874. 



I. The Staphylinidfe of Japan. 

 By David Sharp, M.B. 



[Read 5th May, 1873.] 



This paper is another contribution to om* knowledge of 

 the Coleoptera of Japan, In it are enumerated the species 

 of Staphylinidse known to me from these islands, and the 

 190 species mentioned in it are nearly all of them the 

 results of Mr. Lewis's researches. About 220 species of 

 the family have been submitted to me by Mr. Lewis, as 

 captured by him in Japan ; but about thirty of this num- 

 ber I have been obliged to leave for the present unnoticed, 

 as they consist of single specimens of obscure species of 

 Homalota, Trogophleeus, &c., generally not in sufficiently 

 good condition for description from unique examples. 



Though this number of species (220) may appear a con- 

 siderable one, I have no doubt it 'is but a small portion of 

 the number of species of Staphylinida3 inhabiting Japan, 

 in proof of which 1 may mention two facts : first, that out 

 of the three or four species, which are all that have been 

 previously described of this family fi'om Japan, Mr. Lewis 

 has brought back but one — the Oxytelus japonicus of 

 Motschoulsky ; and second, that out of a dozen species of 

 Staphylinidce which I have myself received, through other 



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