STAPHYLINID.E. CAFIUS. 



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towards each lateral margin : elytra dull pitchy-red, thickly clothed with a 

 silken down, finely punctured: legs and aniennce pitchy-red. 



Found near Gravesend, in the autumn. 



Sp. 12. fumatus. Piceus, capite nigro, antennis elyti-is pedibus ventreque 



riifescentibus. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 

 St.. fumatus. Kirby MSS.—^a.i\xma.i\xs. Steph.Catal. 282. No. 3010. 



Pitchy, slightly pubescent, smooth, glossy: head black, narrower than the 

 thorax, suborbiculate, with two deeply impressed punctures between the 

 eyes: thorax suborbiculate, pitchy-black, with the sides paler, the disc with 

 a double oblique series of three pvmctures, then towards the side, two 

 impressions, and two others on the margins themselves, which last have 

 numerous minute punctures: elytra reddish, depressed, rather villose: 

 abdomen rufo-piceous, beneath paler : legs reddish : antennw pilose, rufous. 



Taken in Suffolk, near London, and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 13. prsecox. Fusco-ferrugineus nitidus, subtus dilutior, capite subovato 

 nigro-piceo, antennis extrorsiim fuscescentibus. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 



St. prascox. Gravenhorst — Ra. prsecox. Steph. Catal. 282. No. 3011. 



Dusky-ferrvginous, shining : head subovate, pitchy-black, with a smgle 

 puncture near each eye in front, and a fcAv smaller ones on the hinder 

 angles: thorax slightly pitchy in front, with the lateral margin paler, the 

 disc with a double row of three punctures^ then two towards each lateral 

 margin, and one larger one on the margins themselves : elytra slightly 

 pubescent, dusky-testaceous : abdomen pitchy-brown, with a violaceous 

 tint, beneath dull ferruginous : legs and antennce xuio-testaceous, the apex of 

 the latter dusky. 



Found in Norfolk, and near London in my own garden ; also in 

 *' Suffolk.''— iTirft^ MSS. " Sea-shore, Redcar."— i2eu. G. T. Rudd. 



Genus DXII. — Cafius, Leach. 



Antennw short, pilose, the base almost glabrous, basal joint long, thickened 

 towards the apex, second and third somewhat pear-shaped, about of equal 

 length, and half as long as the first, the remainder moniliform, the terminal 

 joint being ovate, entire, and very slightly acuminated. Palpi filiform, 

 rather long, the terminal joint elongate-ovate: mandibles bidentate within: 

 head large, oblong-ovate, with a distinct neck : eyes small, lateral : thorax 

 oblong-ovate, truncate in front: body depressed: coleoptra quadrate: abdomen 

 broad, with setae at the apex: legs short: tibia; slightly spined : anterior 

 fa?-si dilated, and rather densely pilose in both sexes. 



From the preceding genus of this family Cafius may be known 



