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STAPHYLINID^E. 



Genus 381. TACHYUSA. 



Erichson, Kaf. der Mark Brand, i. 307 (1837). 



1251. Tachyusa maritima. 



Tachyusa maritima, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 51 (1860). 

 , Id., Append, hvj. op. 67. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissima. Sub lapidibus in salinis 

 ritimis juxta mare exemplaria duo collegi. 



The only two examples of this insect which have yet come beneath 

 my notice were captured by myself, in a saline spot, in the north of 

 Madeira proper from under stones, below high-water mark, at the 

 exact point where the Sao Vicente river empties itself into the sea. 



1252. Tachyusa simillima. 

 Tachyusa simillima, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 534 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), per oras arenosas maritimas sub 

 rejectamentis parce degens. 



Occurs beneath marine rejectamenta along the sandy shores of 

 Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, in the east of the Canarian Group 

 a single example of it having been captured by myself in each of 

 those islands. 



1253. Tachyusa raptoria. 



Tachyusa raptoria, Wott., Ins. Mad. 542 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 170 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 533 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Palma), per margines 

 rivulorum rarissima. 



A small and slender Tachyusa which occurs, though very rarely, 

 both in the Madeiras and Canaries where it resides, at low and 

 intermediate altitudes, amongst wet shingle at the edges of the 

 streams and pools. 1 have taken it both in the north and south of 

 Madeira proper ; and I likewise met with a single example in Palma, 

 of the Canarian Group. 





Genus 382. ISCHNOPODA. 

 Stephens, Man. Brit. Beetl. 355 (1839). 



1254. Ischnopoda longitarsis. 



Aleochara longitarsis (Kby), Steph., III. Brit. Eni. v. 110 (1832). 

 I&chnopoda longitarsis, Id., loc. cit. 355 (1839). 



