ii2 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 55. Staphylinus. 



Fulgidm. dotty-black : (hells and ends of the legs teftaceous : tail 

 fubferruginous. 

 Inhabits Germany, (ize of St. politus. 

 Segments and end of the abdomen teftaceous. 



Crenatus* Blackifh ; thorax margined : (hells with crenatc ftrise. 



Inhabits Germany. 



Antennae ferruginous : thorax fometimes ferruginous, fometimes 

 blackifh with a prominent paler margin: body fometimes dull 

 ferruginoue, fometimes blackifh : legs rufous. 



Striatulus* Black; thorax channelled: (hells ftriatc. 

 Inhabits Germany, fize of St. fulgidus. 



Head gloffy black: antenna: brown: thorax with an imprelled 

 line down the middle : body black : legs piceous. 



Strumofus* Black ; thorax margined : (hells teftaceous. 

 Inhabits Saxony ; middle-fized. 



Laft joint of the antennae acute: thorax brown channelled, very 

 much margined at the fides : f tells fmooth : body brown. 



Cyanipennis Gloffy-black : (hells azure. 



Inhabits Pans; iizeofSt. marginatus. 



Head ovate, narrower than the thorax : thorax with 2 lines of 

 impreffed dots : body brack. 



*Margina- Black ; fides of the thorax and legs yellow. 

 tus. Inhabits Europe. Paykul. Monogr. 44, 32. 



Something lefs than St. politus, and gloffy-black. 



Eulvipes. Gloffy-black: (hells and legs teftaceous: thorax ovate. 

 Inhabits Germany; fize of the laft. 

 Antennae black, teftaceous at the bafe : body black. 



Flavefcens. Black ; legs rufous: (hells edged with yellow. 

 Inhabits Europe j fize of the preceeding ones. 



Alpinus* Black ; bafe of the antenna? (hells and legs livid. 



Inhabits the higheft mountains of Lapland, on the Birch. 

 Body more depreffed than in others : antennae black pale at the 

 bafe: abdomen black. 



*z-puflula- Black ; (hells with a ferruginous dot behind. 

 tus* Inhabits Europe, 



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