INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. .55 Staphylinus, 



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55 . STAPHYLINUS. Antenna moniliform: 



feelers 4: Jhells half as long as the body; 



wings folded up under the fhells : tail 



not armed with a forceps, furnifhed 



with 2 exfertile veficles. 



Aureus. 



Thefe are an exteremely rapicious tribe, devouring whatever in- 

 fects they can catch, and frequently each other; many of them, 

 when attempted to be caught, turn up the tail : the jaws are 

 ilrong and exferted, with which they bite and pinch very hard: 

 moll of them are found in raoft damp places, among putrid 

 fubftances, and a few upon flowers. 



A . All the feele re filifo ml . 



Head thorax and fhells covered with ferruginous down : 



abdomen black with cinereous bands. 

 Inhabits Siam ; fize of St. birtm-. 

 Antennae black, the la ft joint ovate terfaceous : Jhield projecting 



round dilated entire : abdomen with z broad cinereous 



downy bands dotted with black : legs fubteftaceous : thighs 



black. 



*Hirtus. Hairy, black : thorax and hind-part of the abdomen yti- 

 low. 

 Inhabits fandy places of Europe. Schaef. Icon. tab. $&*fig. 6. 



Nebulofis. Pubcfcent, cinereous clouded with black : abdomen black i 

 fhanks ieftaceous. 

 Inhabits Germany ; larger than St. murinus.' 

 Antennae black, the firft joint ferruginous : legs black* 



'Mt 



lunnust 



Pubefc 



ens. 



Pubefcent, cinereous clouded with black : .abdomen deep 

 Mack : legs black. 



Found in rotten carcafles and dung. Schaeff Icon. t. J^.fg. u. 



Shells blue polifhed beneath. Larva 6 -footed naked pale, the 

 head and 3 firll fegments of the abdomen chefnut brown, to/ with 

 2 jointed bridles and a cylindrical tubercle beneath. 



Pubefcent, cinereous clouded: abdomen beneath covered 

 with filvery down. 

 Inhabits Sweden ; fize of St. murinus. Paykull. Meuogr. 16. 9. 

 Head grey villous with a yellowifh ftreak on the fore-part : an. 

 tennaebUck : legs black : thighs ferruginous at the tip. 



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