TACHYPORIDiE. PH1LONTHID.E. 91 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body dark-piceous, naked, smooth, glossy. Antennas and mouth testaceous : prothorax very 

 smooth, wider than the elytra, posterior angles testaceous : elytra longer than the head and prothorax 

 together, piceous with the external apical angle testaceous ; if viewed under a good magnifier, they 

 appear covered, especially next the suture, with minute branching scratches, as if made by a pin or 

 needle, intermixed with very small punctures : abdomen very short and conical, scarcely margined, 

 piceous with the segments paler at their tip. 



(127) 2. * Tachyporus affinis. Contiguous Tachyporus. 



T. (affinis) niyro-piceus.nitidus ; antennis pedibusque testaceis ; elytris castaneis, punctulatissimis. 



Contiguous Tachyporus, dark-piceous, glossy; antennse and legs testaceous; elytra chestnut, very much and minutely 

 punctured. 



Length of the body 1 line. 



Taken with the preceding species. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species is extremely similar to T. acuductus, but the posterior angles of the prothorax are 

 not testaceous : the elytra are palish-chestnut and thickly covered with very minute punctures, with- 

 out any scratches. 



v. Fissilabra. Lat. 

 Family PHILONTHIDiE. Philonthidans. 



XLVI. Genus PHILONTHUS. Leach. 



(128) 1. Philonthus politus. Polished Phi lont hits. 



Philonthus politus. Kirb. 



puncticollis. Steph. Cat. 279, 6. Illustr. Mandib. v, 228, 6. 



Staphylinus politus. Linn. Fn. Suec. 843. Syst. Nat. ii, 683, 5. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. ii, 594, 22. Scop. Cam. 304. 

 Schrank.' Enum. 437. Payk. Fn. Suec. ii, 391, 31. Ross Fn. Etrusc. 606. Villi Ent. i, 412, 5. Geoff. Ins. i, 367, 17 ? 



. similis. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 497, 3? 



aeneus. Fourc. Ent. Par. 17. Grav. Micr. 17, 18? 



Length of the body 5 lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



N 2 



