5 io 



*Olens. 



Similis. 



INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 55. Staphylinus. 



Black, opake, immaculate: head broader than the thorax. 

 Inhabits Europe. Geojfr. Ins. I. tab. "].jig* I. Payk. Mon. 9, 4.. 



Glofly-black : (hells dufky : head broader than the thorax. 

 Inhabits Germany. Schceff. Icon. tab. 30. fig. 12. 

 Head and thorax punctured, with a raifed dorfal line : Jlielh 

 very fhort. 



Picipennis* Black, poli fhed : fhells piceous. 



Inhabits Germany; refembles the laft. 



Head and thorax fmooth : fnells dull piceous. 



*Maxilkjus Pubefcent, black with cinereous bands. 



Inhabits Europe. Donov. Eng. Inf. iii. plate 96. fig. 3. 



Jaws as long as the head 1 antennae longer than the head \ Jhells 



covering one third of the abdomen : legs ending in fmall tufts 



of hairs. 



Oculatus. 



Glofly-black: head with a fulvous fpot each fide. 

 Inhabits New Holland and New Zealand.. 



Cyaneus. Black, opake: thorax and fhells blueifli. 

 Inhabits Italy. Paykull. Monogr. 13,7. 

 Size of St. maxilloius. Head broader than the thorax. 



Dilatatus. 



Thorax margined, glofly-black : fhells brown : antennas 

 ferrate. 

 Inhabits Saxony, 



Antennae ferrate, hairy, black : mandibles forked : fides of the 

 thorax with colours of various hues : fore -flanks fhort hairy. 



Fulgens. Azure, polifhed: antennoe tipt with black. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. Body large and flender. 

 Head large ovate blue: flrit -joint of the antennae long blue, the 

 laft fhort black: thorax narrowed before: legs and body blue. 



* Erythrop- 

 terus. 



Black ; fhells, bafe of the antennas and legs red. 

 Inhabits Europe. Schaeff. Icon. tab. 2. Jig. 2. 

 Head and thorax unpolifhed black: jliells with 2 triangular fpots 

 each fide compofed of a few gilded hairs* 



JEneocepha' 

 ius. 



Black with a brafly-glofs : fhells and legs teftaceous : an- 

 tennas brown. 

 Inhabits Germany. Payhull. Monog. 11,6. 



Probably a variety of the laft : body black : legs rufous. 



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