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STAPHYLINIDJE. 



(Subfam. VIII. OXYTELIDES.) 



Genus 415. BLEDIUS. 

 (Leach) Steph., III Brit. Ent. v. 307 (1832). 



1418. Bledius januvianus. 



Bledius januvianus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 593 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.}, rarissimus ; ad marginem lacus cjus 

 salini " Januvio" dicti parce deprehensus. 



The few specimens which I have yet seen of this large Canarian 

 Bledms, which perhaps may be but a greatly developed state of the 

 European B. Ucornis, were captured by myself in Lanzarote at the 

 edges of the salt lake of Januvio, adjoining the south-western shore 

 of that island. A species very nearly allied to it, but of a much 

 darker hue, was met with by the Messrs. Crotch on the opposite 

 coast of Morocco. 



1419. Bledius cornutissimus, 

 Bledms cornutissimus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 594 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.}, in Salinis necnon per oras ar< 

 nosas maritimas sub rejectamentis parcissime fodiens. 



Likewise Canarian, and found in the eastern portion of the Group 

 where however it is of excessive rarity. I have taken it in Lan- 

 zarote and Fuerteventura, both under marine rejectamenta along the 

 sandy shores and at the Salinas (or salt-works). 



1420. Bledius galeatus. 



Bledius galeatus, Woll, Cat. Can. Col 594 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.), ad Salinas parce lectus. 



Also a Canarian Bledius, and with similar habits to the la 

 species the only three examples which I have seen having been 

 captured by myself at the Salinas, in the north of Lanzarote. 



Genus 416. PLATYSTETHUS. 



Mannerheim, Brachel 46 [script. Platysthetus] (1831). 



1421. Platystethus cornutus. 



Oxytelus cornutus, Grav., Col. Micropt. 109 (1802). 

 Platysthetus cornutus, Erich., Gen. el Spec. Staph. 782 (1839). 



