STAPHYLINID.E. EMUS. 203 



nearly semi-oral, very smooth^ shining, glabrous : scuiellum clothed with a 

 golden-^«/yoM5 pubescence : elytra very much punctulated, each with four 

 larger spots disposed longitudinally on the disc, and one outwardly between 

 the two intermediate ones, the surface with an ashy pubescence, and the 

 apex with loiag go]den-fi: I vous cilia: abdomen with an ashy pile, the mar- 

 gins of the segments ciliated with golden-fulvous, and the apical joint the 

 same ; beneath the three basal joints edged with silvery pile, and the 

 remainder with golden : legs clothed with fulvous pile. 



Very rare : one example, which was taken near Edinburgh by Dr. 

 Leach, being the only specimen which I have seen : it is in the 

 British Museum. 



Genus Dili. — Emus, Leach. 



AnienncB scarcely longer than the head, 11-jointed, pubescent, basal joint 

 elongate, slightly bent, subclavate, four next obconic, five following trans- 

 verse lenticular, apical one as long as the second, ovate-acuminate. Palpi 

 subfiliform; maxillary with the penultimate joint clavate, the terminal 

 slender, elongate-fusiform : mandibles considerably elongate, slightly bent, 

 irregularly dentate within towards the base, simple and acute at the apex, 

 dissimilar : head subtriangular, nearly as large as the thorax, the latter 

 broadest in front, rounded behind : body densely clothed with pile : elytra 

 depressed: legs stout, hirsute: tarsi pentamerous, the anterior dilated: 

 the base of the femora in the males with an elongate, incurved, truncate 

 spine, dilated at the apex. 



Emus may be readily known by its great size, and its densely 

 clothed body, the pubescence being very long and erect : its head 

 and thorax are very wide, jaws powerfully and strongly dentate : the 

 antennae are of different form and proportions from Creophilus, as 

 well as the palpi, and the males have a spine at the base of the 

 hinder femora. 



Sp. 1. hirtus. Niger, hirsutus, capite, thorace, ahdominisque postice flavo-vil- 

 losis, elytris postice fascia cinerea. (Long. corp. 9 — 12 lin.) 



St. hirtus. Linne.—Don. xvi. pi. 552. — Em. hirtus. Steph. Catal. 274.. 

 No. 2890. 



Black : head and thorax densely clothed with an erect golden-yellow pile, the 

 hinder margin of the latter and the scutellum with black ; elytra finely 

 punctured, anteriorly clothed with a short depressed black pile, and poste- 

 riorly with a villose-cinereous fascia, in which are a few black spots : abdo- 

 men above, with the three terminal segments, clothed with golden-yellow 

 pile, and the base with black j beneath somewhat violaceous, with a broad 



