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Descriptions of South Australian 

 Staphylinid^ . 



Translated from the Frencli and Latin of M. Fauyel by 

 Sydney E. Holdee, Assoc. Eoy. Soc. 



[Read October 4, 1881.] 



Introduction. 



Tlie following paper is a description of all the species of 

 Staphylinida^ as yet known to occur in this colony, translated 

 from the work of M. Fauvel, " Les Staphylinides de TAustralie 

 et de la Polynesie," published in two volumes at Geneva in 

 1877-8. 



The total number of species recorded is thirty-two. Of 

 these twenty-six appear with South Australian localities in 31. 

 Pauvel's monograph ; but a collection of ten South Australian 

 species forwarded to that author by Mr. Tepper,* contained 

 six not previously enumerated. 



The species are as follows : — 



Trogophlceus simplex, Mots., Adelaide. 

 Oxytelus subaeneus, Fauvel, Port Augusta, 

 semirufus, Ful., Port Augusta, 

 impennis, Fvl., Adelaide, 

 sparsus, Fvl., Adelaide. 

 Xantholinus phsenicopterus, Er., Nuriootpa. (Univ. Mue., 

 Tepper.) 

 erythropterus, Er., Adelaide, 

 chloropterus, Er., Adelaide, Port Augusta, 

 chalcopterus, Er., Nuriootpa. (Univ. Mus., 



Tepper.) 

 socius, Fvl., Adelaide, Nuriootpa. (Univ. Mus., 

 Tepper.) 

 Emus erythrocephalus, Fahr., Ardrossan. (Univ. Mus,, 

 Tepper) . 



* The collection of South Australian insects formed by Mr. Tepper has 

 been acquired by the University of Adelaide. 



