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STAPHYLINID.E. 



beneath stones and vegetable refuse, for the most part at interme- 

 diate elevations. It is tolerably common around (and above) Fun- 

 chal, in Madeira proper ; and it has been taken in the whole seven 

 islands of the Canarian archipelago. However it is not peculiar to 

 the islands, for I met with it at Mogadore on the opposite coast of 



Africa. 



* 



Genus 399. QUEDIUS. 

 (Leach) Steph., ///. Brit. Ent. v. 215 (1832). 



I. Oculi minores. 



Antenna* pedesque robusta, tarsi's anticis 

 latissime dilatatis. 



1338. Quedius angustifrons. 



Quedius angustifrons, Wall., Cat. Can. Col. 563 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Gom.), in sylvaticis subsylvaticisque in- 

 termediis rarissimus. 



A Canarian Quedius which appears to be extremely rare, occur- 

 ring in damp spots of intermediate altitudes. Hitherto it has been 

 taken only in Grand Canary and Gomera. 



1339. Quedius fulgidus. 



Staphylinus fulgidus, Fab., Mant. Ins. i. 220 (1787). 

 Quedius fulgidus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 525 (1839). 



, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 492 (1856). 



, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 563 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), in intermediis rarissimus. 



The European Q. fulgidus occurs very sparingly at the Canaries, 

 having been taken in the intermediate districts of Teneriffe and 

 Gomera. In the former island, I met with it in the laurel- woods at 

 Las Mercedes ; and it was captured by the Messrs. Crotch in the 

 Final above Ycod el Alto. 



II. Oculi maximi, prominentes. Antennae pedesque graciliora, 

 tarsis anticis multo minus dilatatis. (Raphirus, Steph.) 



1340. Quedius megalops. 



Quedius megalops, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 564 (1864). Hi 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro), sub quisqui- 

 liis in intermediis prassertim sylvaticis, late sed parce diffusus. 



Widely though sparingly diifused over the intermediate altitudes 

 of the Canarian Group, where it occurs beneath vegetable refuse 





