STAPHYLINIDiE. PHILONTHUS. 227 



segment beneath^ in one sex, twice as long as the others, and covering the 

 penultimate : legs black : tarsi pitchy. 



Not uncommon beneath old bones, under dung, moss, &c., 

 throughout the metropohtan district ; and in Suffolk. " Not unfre- 

 quent (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 2. seneus. Ater, capite thoraceque lavissimis ceneis, elytris ceneis nitidis. 



(Long. corp. 5 lin.) 

 St. aeneus. De Geer.—Vh.. aeneus. Steph. Catal 279. No. 2957. 



Black : head and thorax extremely smooth, brassy, and polished : elytra finely 

 and rather thickly punctured, also shining brassy : legs black ; tarsi piceous : 

 antennte black. 



Probably a variety, of the female } of the preceding species. 



Also abundant within the metropolitan district, in company with 

 the preceding insect. " (Near Swansea,) not uncommon."" — L. W. 

 Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 3. chalceus. Ater, capite thoraceque nitidissimis ceneis, elytris viridi-ceneis, 



pedihus wneo-piceis. (Long. corp. 5 Im.) 

 Ph. chalceus. Steph. Catal. 279. No. 2958. 



Black ; head small, rounded, extremely glossy, and bright brass : thorax also 

 very glossy, brassy, and impunctate : elytra greenish-hrass, finely punc- 

 tured : abdomen black, vsrith a brassy tinge : legs also brassy-black : 

 antennae dull black. 



Taken within the metropohtan district ; apparently uncommon. 



b. With the sides of the thorax slightly waved. 



Sp. 4. splendens. Ater, capite thoraceque Iwvissimis, elytris subpubescentibus 



ceneis nitidulis. (Long. corp. 5 — 6 lin.) 

 St. splendens. Fabricius. — Ph. splendens. Steph. Catal. 279. No. 2959. 



Black ; head broad, very smooth and polished, with a faint brassy tint, and a 

 few punctures on each side behind, two most conspicuous, two others on 

 the disc of the forehead, and one near each eye; thorax also smooth, 

 polished, and tinted with aeneous, the disc impunctate, the lateral margins 

 slightly impressed : elytra slightly pubescent, shining brassy : abdomen 

 with the penultimate segment obscurely edged with white : antenna? tomen- 

 tose obscure, with the four basal joints shining. 



Not uncommon in dung within the metropolitan district; also 

 found in Norfolk and Suffolk. " Not uncommon (near Swansea)."** 

 — L, W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Q.2 



