STAPHYLINID^. 7T 



a more or less distinct testaceous patch on the disc, and very distinct 

 scattered punctures ; in F. cornutus the sixth ventral segment of the 

 abdomen of the male is gently sinuate, whereas in F. alntaceus it is 

 less broadly sinuate, and the sinuation is terminated on each side by a 

 small tooth. In both species the elytra are margined at the apex as 

 well as along the suture. The colour of the elytra, as Mr. Champion 

 points out, is perhaps variable in both insects and not to be relied on 

 as a character. L. 3J-4 mm. 



Taken by Mr. Champion, who introduced the species as British (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xxxiii. (2 Ser. viii.) 1897, 98), at Morden, Surrey, m 1869, 

 and by Mr. Keys at Slapton Ley, Devon. Also at Sandown, Isle of 

 Wight (J. Taylor) ; Sittingbourne (de la Garde) ; Chobham (Saunders) ; 

 Oxford and New Forest (Walker) ; Woking (Champion) ; Hanwell 

 (Donisthorpe) ; Pulborough, Sussex (Nicholson) ; Bradfield (Joy). The 

 species is widely distributed in Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor. 



OXYTELUS, Gravenhorst. 



O. perrisi, Fauvel. Bull. Soc. Norm. vi. 1861, 42 (1861). In the 

 Irish List, p. 672, the variety of 0. maritwius with yellowish elytra is 

 recorded as the var. j^en'isi of 0. maritimus, Thorns., Skand. Col. iii. 131 

 (1861) ; the elytra, however, in this species vary through several shades 

 of colour from brownish or brownish-red to yellowish ; in the last 

 European catalogue 0. maritimns is only regarded as a synonym of 

 0. perrisi, and Ganglbauer is of the same opinion (Kaf. der 

 Mitteleurop. ii. 640) ; the date in each case is 1861, but Fauvel's name 

 appears to have the priority. 



O. saulcyi, Pand. Mat. Cat. Gren. 18G7, 172. Closely allied to 

 0. tetracarinatus, from which it is distinguished by the externally 

 emarginate apex of the anterior tibiae, the deeper fovese on the vertex, 

 the shorter and more granulose elytra, the more shining and very 

 sparingly punctured abdomen, and the male characters. It resembles 

 0. fairmairei in the formation of the apex of the anterior tibiae, 

 but difiers in having the fore parts a little more coarsely sculptured ; 

 the hind body, moreover, is alutaceous and very finely and diffusely 

 punctured, whereas in 0. fairmairei this part is not alutaceous, but is 

 strongly and closely punctured. 



In the male the sixth ventral segment is produced in the middle of 

 its hind boi"der into a short and broad transverse plate, at the base of 

 which is a tubercle which is cai'inate behind ; the seventh ventral 

 segment is broadly emarginate, and the centre of the emargination is 

 feebly produced. L. lf-2 mm. 



Taken at Bradfield, Berks, in moles' nests by Dr. Joy who has 

 introduced the species as British (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlvi. (2 Ser. xxi.) 

 1910, 4); Cheshunt and Broxbourne (Nicholson); Isle of Grain, Kent, 

 and Widley, Hants (Cameron) ; Coulsdon (Bedwell) ; Harrow (Doll- 

 man). All the small examples of Oxytelus, which have been taken in 

 moles' nests, and have mostly been referred to 0. fairmairei, most 



