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STAPHYLINHLE. 



1343. Ocypus brachypterus. 



Staphylinus brachypterus, Bnille, in Webb et Berth. (Col} 59 (1838). 

 Ocypus brachypterus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 565 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), hinc inde in sylvaticis editioribus. 



A large Canarian Ocypus which has been observed hitherto only in 

 Teneriffe, where it occurs in the sylvan districts of intermediate and 

 lofty elevations. It is totally distinct from the European species 

 which has usually been referred to M. Brulle's brachyptenis. 



1344. Ocypus affinis. 



Ocypus affinis, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 566 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten. ?, Palma), in locis similibus ac praecedens. 



Also Canarian, and found in much the same kind of places as the 

 last species ; though I have myself met with it only in the island of 

 Palma. I possess a single example, however, from the collection of 

 M. Hartung, which was labelled " Teneriffe;" and as it differs a 

 little (chiefly in colour) from my Palman types, I am inclined to 

 suspect that its professed habitat is probably correct. The 0. affinis 

 is a little smaller and narrower than the brachypterus, and its punc- 

 tation is stronger and less dense ; its head is convexer and rather less 

 developed, its central prothoracic line is less conspicuous, its elytra 

 are not quite so abbreviated, and its limbs are of a clearer hue. 



1345. Ocypus umbricola. 



Ocypus umbricola, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 566 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in sylvaticis editioribus parce occurrens. 



Likewise a Canarian species, and observed hitherto only in the 

 sylvan districts of Teneriffe where it occurs sparingly at inter- 

 mediate and lofty altitudes. It is found both in the laurel-woods 

 and in the Pinals, but is more partial to the former than to the 

 latter. 



1346. Ocypus curtipennis. 

 Ocypus curtipennis, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 567 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.}, in sylvaticis subsylvaticisque deprehensus. 



Taken by myself in the intermediate elevations of Grand Canary 

 both in the region of El Monte and in the laurel- district betwee: 

 Osorio and Guia. 



