328 Mr. M. Cameron on new Staphylinidae 



stria. Legs and antennae (except last two joints, which are 

 fuscous) reddish testaceous. Tarsi simple. 



Length 4 mm. 



Narrower and less robust than the smallest specimens of 

 M. punctatus, Er., and the elytra nearly entirely testaceous. 



Head and antennae much as in the preceding species ; 

 thorax a little longer than broad, a little wider in the middle, 

 equally narrowed in front and behind, with the sides evenly 

 rounded, narrower than the head and the elytra, and with 

 four coarsely punctured transverse impressions on each side, 

 the first separated from each other by a narrow smooth space 

 on middle of the disc ; the second are separated by a broader 

 space bearing a large puncture, the third by a wider impunc- 

 tate space, the fourth follow the posterior margin and are 

 not interrupted. Elytra about as long as the thorax, scarcely 

 transverse, testaceous; the humeral callus and base narrowly- 

 black, the apical margin narrowly and irregularly blackish ; 

 sutural callus, sutural stria, and short punctate stria on the 

 disc well marked. Abdomen as in preceding. 



St. Vincent (H. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 



10. Megalops smithi, sp. n. 



(Fauvel, in litt.) 



Blue-black, shining; elytra lemon-yellow, with humeral 

 callus ; base, suture, sides, and apical margins narrowly 

 reddish brown, without trace of impression or striae on the 

 disc. Legs and antennae (except last two joints, which are 

 brown) reddish testaceous. Tarsi simple. 



Length 35 mm. 



Head, with eyes broader than the elytra ; clypeal spines 

 long, brownish ; mandibles reddish. Antennae much longer 

 than in the preceding; first joint concealed, second twice 

 as long as broad, third twice as long as second, fourth to 

 eighth longer than broad, gradually decreasing in length ; 

 ninth and tenth transverse, especially the tenth ; eleventh 

 oval, pointed; front with circular punctate impression, 

 enclosing a smooth, round, central, raised space ; vertex with 

 narrow longitudinal raised line. Thorax (viewed from 

 above) nearly cylindrical, with a small blunt tooth on each 

 side behind the second furrow, a little longer than broad, 

 with four transverse punctured furrows ; the first, not inter- 

 rupted in the middle line, follows the anterior margin ; the 

 second is very narrowly interrupted by a feeble longitudinal 

 ridge ; third distinctly interrupted by a smooth space ; fourth 

 follows the posterior margin and is not interrupted. Elytra 



