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Family CREOPHILID^. Creophilidans. 



XLVIII. * Genus CREOPHILUS. Kirb. 



(133) 1. Creophilus villosus. (Kirby.) Villose Creophilus. 



Staphylinus villosus. Grav. Micr. 160, 2. 

 Length of the body 7 lines. 



Taken in Lat. 54°. in Canada, also by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by Capt. 

 Hall. I have specimens likewise taken in Britain. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species is extremely similar to C. maxillosus, and its American representative. The fol- 

 lowing circumstances principally distinguish them. The anterior angles of the prothorax in C. 

 maxillosus are thinly cloathed with shortish black hairs ; in C. villosus these hairs are cinereous, 

 longer, more numerous, and cover a larger portion of the angle : in the former, the band of the 

 elytra is whiter and wider than in the latter : in the former also the back of the abdomen, especially 

 the third and fourth segments, is mottled with cinereous hairs ; in the latter the second and third 

 have each a cinereous band interrupted in the middle : again the Jour first ventral segments in C. 

 maxillosus are thickly covered with decumbent cinereous hairs, with each a lateral black spot on both 

 sides, while in C. villosus only the three first segments are so distinguished; and finally, in the 

 former the sides of the postpectus are covered with black hairs, and in the latter with cinereous. 



III. ENTAPHIA. Kirb. 

 Family NECROPHORID^. Necrophoridans. 



XLIX. Genus NECROPHORUS. Fab. 



Mr. Mac Leay (Annulos. Javan. i, 39) seems to regard Necrophorus, in the circle 

 of Necrophaga, as the analogue of Creophilus in the circle of Brachelytra, from 

 which it should seem that he had not compared the oral organs of these two genera, 

 if he had he would have immediately have perceived that Necrophorus forms rather 

 an osculant group by which a transit is made from one to the other. For besides 

 that the labrum, labium (lingua) and palpi of both nearly agree, the maxillae of 

 Necrophorus are formed upon the same plan as those of the Stapkylinidce, particu- 



