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PLATE DLI. 
STAPHYLINUS HIRTUS. 
HAIRY STAPHYLINUS, or ROVE-BEETLE. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne moniliform: feelers four: wing-cafes half as long as the 
body: wings folded up under the wing-cafes: tail armed with a pair 
of forceps, and furnifhed with two exfertile veficles. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Hairy, black: thorax and pofterior part of the abdomen yellow. 
STAPHYLINUS HIRTUS: hirfutus niger, thorace abdomineque pof- 
tice flavis. Linn. Syft. Nat. 683. 1.—Fn. Suee. 
—  839.—Gmmel. Linn. Syft. 2025. 217. 1. 
 Fabr. fp. inf. 1. p. 834. ». 1.—Mant. Inf. 1. p. 
219. n. 2. Ent. Syft. 1. 6. 519. 2 
_ Staphylinus niger sitet: &c.—Le Staphylin bourdon. lenge Inf: 
par. 1. p. 363. n. 7. , 
a bombylius. Degeer 4. 20. 5. 
TAPHYLINUs HIRTUS. Mar/h. Ent. Brit. T. 1. p. 496. 1. 
(aa aE 
The largeft and moft interefting fpecies of the Staphylinus genus 
found in this country, and alfo one of the moft uncommon. 
In 
