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STAPHYLINID.E. 



1373. Leptacinus parumpunctatus. 



Staphylinus parumpunctatus, Gyll, Ins. Suec. iv. 481 (1827). 

 Leptacinus paruinpimctatus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 353 (1839] 



, Wott., Ann. Nat. Hist. viii. 107 (1861). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col 579 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (ins. omnes), sub quisqui- 

 liis et prascipue sub recremento ad basin acervorum fosni sparso 

 passim. 



A European Leptacinus which is widely diffused over these Atlantic 

 Groups, though apparently nowhere common. It was found by the 

 late Mr. Bewicke, beneath hay-stack refuse, at the Palheiro, in Ma- 

 deira proper ; and it has been taken in the whole seven islands of 

 the Canarian archipelago. Its detection in Hierro is due to the late 

 researches of the Messrs. Crotch. 



1374. Leptacinus linearis. 



Staphylinus linearis, Grav., Col. Micropt. 43 (1802). 



Leptacinus linearis, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 649 (1857). 



, Wall., Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 101 (1860). 



, Id, Cat. Can. Col. 580 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Lanz., Ten.), in locis 

 similibus ac praacedens. 



Also European, and found in much the same kind of places in these 

 islands as the last species ; though hitherto it does not happen to 

 have been observed quite so generally. It was taken by the late 

 Mr. Bewicke, from beneath the refuse of a hay-stack at S. Antonio 

 da Serra, in Madeira proper; and it has been found in Lanzarote 

 and Teneriffe, of the Canarian Group. 



Genus 405. OTHIUS. 

 (Leach) Steph., Ill Brit. Ent. v. 253 (1832). 



1375. Othius strigulosus. 



Othius strigulosus, Wott., Ins. Mad. 575 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 186 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub lapidibus lignoque putrido per re- 

 giones sylvaticas diifusus. 



A large and remarkable Othius which seems to be peculiar to the 

 moist sylvan districts of Madeira proper, where it secretes itself 

 beneath stones and logs of rotting wood at intermediate and lofty 

 altitudes occurring, usually, in the dampest spots. 





