INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 55. Staphylinus; 521 



Cellaris. Black ; thorax with a rufous fpoteach fide at the bafe. 



Inhabits Sweden ; lefs than St. fubterraneus. 



S bells with a fmall rufous fpot at the bafe : legs rufous. 



3 maculatus Thorax rufous : fhells palifh with 3 black fpots. 

 Inhabits Denmark ; fize of the former ones. 

 Head black : antennae rufous : thorax with a common black fpot 

 at the bafe and 2 larger ones behind : breafi black : abbomen 

 black, rufous at the bafe. 



Zmmaculatus Black, fhells with a pale fpot at the bafe : legs pale. 

 Inhabits Zealand ; fmall. 

 Antennae black, the bafe and tip ferruginous .• head gloiTy-black: 



mouth ferruginous : thorax with a ferruginous fpot each fide at 



the bafe ; body black. 



z-punaatus GlofTy-black : fpot at the bafe- of the fhells and tail rufous,, 

 Inhabits Germany. Oxyporus 2-puflulatus. Fabric/us, 

 Thorax immaculate : abdomen and legs piceous. 



Daldorfii. Yellow ; bafe of the fhells and tail black * 



Inhabits Germany. Oxyporus analis. Pabricius* 

 Antennae yellow tipt with brown : breafi black. 



*Merdarius Black : thorax fhells and legs rufous. 

 Inhabits England j fmall. 



Antennae ferruginous tipt with brown ; head black : thorax fU* 

 fous : fcutel black : body black. 



Ikoracim* Blackifh ; thorax rufous ; fhells brown, white at the bafe. 

 Inhabits Holface, on fungi- 



Antennae pale at the bafe, tipt with black : Jhells whitifh-brown, 

 the margin thicker and brown : fegments of thtabdomen black 

 at the bafe, reddifh at the tip : legs yellow. 



Pygmczus. Blackifh : thorax and fhells pale. 

 Inhabits AW, on fungi. 

 Shells pale, a little thicker and brown at the edge. 



Fufcefcenj* Black ; fhells and legs brown. 



Inhabits Europe. Oxyporus flavipes. Fabricius* 

 Refembles the former ones, but is much lefs, 



*Cbryfime' Black, thorax rufous : fhells teftaceous, the margin at the 

 Unus, bafe black. 



Inhabits Europe, Paykull. Monogr. 77. 54, 



Vol. — II 3 U Nigri capillar 



