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than the thorax, truncate at apex, with the outer margin strongly rounded, 

 a distinct sutural stria, very sparsely and feebly punctate, and more densely 

 and briefly pubescent. Abdomen hardly so broad as the thorax, with 

 parallel sides, hardly so long as the rest of the body, bluntly rounded at 

 apex, the surface rather feebly and sparsely punctate, the puncta giving 

 rise to moderate hairs, the edges of the segments fringed with similar hairs. 



Length, 6 mm.; breadth, 1.5 mm. 



Florissant, Colorado; one specimen. No. 308; possibly also No. 5047 

 belongs here. 



STAPHYLINITES Scudder. 



A provisional genus, established for the species here mentioned, from 

 the Oligocene of Wyoming, the generic affinities of which can be deter- 

 mined only after fuiiher material is obtained. 



Staphylinites obsoletum. 



Stapkylinites obsoletum. Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr.. II. 78 (1876); 

 * Tert. Ins. N. A., 510, pi. 8, fig. 32(1890). 



Grreen River, Wyoming. 



Twenty-seven species of seven genera of this family have been reported 

 from Tertiary deposits, only one of them from the Pleistocene. Of these 

 only three come from America, of as many genera, and these all represented 

 also in Europe. 



In the two species from Florissant here described we have forms toler- 

 ably near to existing species, but in both of them the punctuation of the 

 upper surface of the body is coarser than in their living representatiA^es. 



COCCINELLA Linnd. 



About a dozen species of this genus are found living in North America 

 north of Mexico; it occurs all over the world and has numerous species. 

 About a dozen species have been found in the early Tertiaries of Europe, 

 at Oeningen, Rott, and Aix, and it occurs also in amber, and is reported in 

 the English Pleistocene. Chagnon reports a species from the Miocene (?) of 

 Vancouver Island. 



