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which is the smallest, and occasionally obsolete. Antenna and 

 legs very long, robust, and deep black, except the tibial spurs and 

 tmsal claws, which are piceo-ferrugiuous. 



Var. y8. Elytra entirely immaculate, and usually of a slightly 

 paler hue. 



I have hitherto regarded this insect as identical with the Zo- 

 nitis ^-punctata of the south of Europe ; but a more accurate 

 comparison of it lately with specimens from Lombardy has con- 

 vinced me that it cannot be referred to that species (however 

 much it may resemble it at first sight), presenting a combina- 

 tion of small structural characters essentially its own ; and I 

 have therefore given a fresh description of it, in which its pecu- 

 liarities are more fully portrayed. It differs from the Z. 4- 

 punctata in being a little larger, and in having its head propor- 

 tionally a trifle broader and its scutellum somewhat longer, in 

 the pubescence of its dark portions being rather more elongate 

 and dark, and in its limbs being robuster, less abbreviated 

 (which is particularly evident in the antennae and tarsi), and of a 

 much deeper black, — the last autennal joint, moreover, being 

 cylindric, instead of gradually tapering as in that insect. Its 

 elytra also are a shade darker and perhaps a trifle less pubes- 

 cent, and their extreme apex (instead of being black) is con- 

 colorous with the rest of the surface. 



Fam. Staphylinida. 



Genus Leptacinus. 



Erichson, Kaf. der Mark Brand, i. 429 (1837). 



Leptacinus parumpunctatus, Gyll. 



L. niger, nitidus ; capita utrinque parce sed valde profunde punctato, 

 ad basin recte truncate ; prothorace postice gradatim angustato, 

 seriebus dorsalibus 5- (vel 6-) punctatis ; elytris versus latera se- 

 riatim punctatis, angulo apicali externo testaceo ; antennis fusco- 

 piceis ; pedibus piceo-testaceis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 2^. 



Habitat Maderam, ad Palheiro prope Funchal a Dom. Bewicke 

 detectus. 



Staphylinus parumpunctatus, Gyll., Ins. Suec. iv. 481 (182/). 

 Gyrohypnus parumpunctatus, Mann., Brachel. 33 (1831). 

 Leptacinus parumpunctatus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 353 (1838). 



L. black and shining. Head and prothorax highly polished : 

 the/on/icr straightly truncated behind, very deejdy but sparingly 

 punctured at the sides, and with the frontal sulci exceedingly 

 deep and distinct ; the latter gradually narrowed behind, with a 

 longitudinal row of five (occasionally six) large punctures on either 

 side of its disk, and with about five more arranged in a cui'vc to- 



