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Family Staphylinidae. 



Lasthrobium cavicola Miiller. The ouly true cave staphylinid ; is also found under stones in Italy. 

 Xantholmus tenuipcs Baudi. " Yeux rudimentaires " (Fauvel). 

 Xantholmus myops Fauv. 



This species, according to Fauvel, Dr. Sharp tells me, has eyes. These two " subanophthal- 

 mous" species, says Bedel, are found under deeply buried stones, and the first notably in the 

 neighborhood of caves. Bedel (p. 44) remarks : " The Staphylinidse includes, especially in the 

 Mediterranean region, a relatively considerable number of terricolous or lapidicolous species, of 

 very small size, and for the most part blind. For example : 



Phlwocaris (Scotodytes) paradoxa Saulcy. Pyr6n6es-Orientales. 



Phlwocaris laticollis Fauv. Piedmont. 



Leptotyphlus suMwvis Fauv. Corsica. 



Cylindrogaster cwcus Perr. 



Scotonomus raymondi Saulcy. Italian islands. 



Alicrillus subterraneus Raffi. Algeria. 



Apteranillus dohrni Fairm. Algeria. 



Apteranillus raffrayi Fairm. Algeria. 



Apteranillus convexifrons Fairm. Algeria. 



Leptusa, etc. 



Mycetoporus spelaus Scriba. Asturia, Spain. "Remarkable for the great reduction of the eyes" (Bedel). 



Typhlocaris silvanoides Dieck. Morocco. 



Family Carabidae. 



Illaphanus stephensii MacLeay. Australia ; eyeless. 

 Pterostichus microphthalmus Delar. Pyrenees. 



Trechus microphthalmus Miller (spelmus Reitt. ). Carpathians, under flat stones ; and caves of Demanova, under 

 stones. 



The following species of Trechus, says Bedel, have the eyes more or less reduced in size, and 

 live under large stones, deeply buried in the earth, in the Alps. Dr. Sharp writes me: "The eyes 

 in many Trechi are more or less reduced, but they are not blind beetles." 



Trechus subterraneus Miller. 



Trechus longhii Comolli. 



Trechus baldensis Putz. 



Trechus strigipennis Kiesw. . 



Trechus ochreatus Dej. 



Anophthalmus clairi Aube - . Maritime Alps. 



Anophthalmus santosquensis Aub6. Maritime Alps. 



Anophthalvms pilosellus Miller. Is not a cave-dweller. Carpathians and eastern Galicia. 



The group of Antiphodrus contains a certain number of species which are not known to be 

 cavicolous, but whose habits approach those which are. Their eyes are reduced in size. They are : 



Antisphodrus elegans Dej. Southern Austria and Turkey. 



Antisphodrus pseudapostolus Schf. Country unknown. 



Antisphodrus macropus Chaud. Lombardy. 



Antisphodrus ghilianii Schaum. Italy and perhaps hoppeni. Mots, from the Crimea and obtusangulus from 



Asia Minor. 

 Anillus debilis Lee. 

 Anillus fortis Horn. 

 Anillus dohrni Ehlers. 

 Petrocharis eggersi Ehlers. West Indies. 



Reicheia lucifuga, etc. Six species almost blind, the eyes being aborted ; x>eculiar to the Mediterranean basin. 

 Beichia urlaubi Saulcy. 

 Reichia raymondi Putz. 

 Reichia palustris Saulcy. 

 Reichia proecox Schaum. 

 Reichia frondicola Reitt. 

 Reichia baudii Rag. 

 Geocharis sp. 

 Dichropterm sp. 

 Scotodipnus 7 sp. 

 Microtyphlw 7 sp. 



