170 
REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLII : 
by an inspection of Kirby’s collection (Stephen has arranged his work 
on this family chiefly from Kirby’s MSS.), that many of the typical 
specimens are only immature individuals of well known species ; but he 
has unfortunately lost his notes. Several species are defined as new : 
Staphylinus semijpolitus (^erhsb^s fuscatus, Gr.), Raphirus nigricornis, 
Omalium mesomelas. They all appear to me doubtful. 
Markel has discovered and described five new and distinct species 
among the Staphylini, which live in the nests of the Formica fuliginosa 
(Ent. Zeit. p. 142) ; they all belong to the group of Aleocharcc, and are, 
Myrmedonm cognata, laticollis ; Oxypoda vittata, Aleochara inquilina, 
Euryusa acuminata. 
Lathrdbium longicorne, Redtenbacher (Col. Austr. p. 8, n. 5), appears 
to me the same with Lath, angusticolle (Gen. et Sp. Staph. 593-7). 
Jacobson remarks, in reference to the doubts raised by me about the 
Lathr. elongatum, Gyll. (Kroyer Naturhist. Tidsskr. iv. p. 344), that 
he has found, among a number of Scandinavian individuals, some agree- 
ing with Gyllenhal’s, as well as some with my description ; whether, 
and how they are different, except in the formation of the penultimate 
segment of the abdomen in the male, is not more exactly men- 
tioned. 
Aube has described several Staphylini from the south of Europe 
(Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent, d. Fr. xi. p, 234) ; Ocypus siculus and planipen- 
nis, from Sicily, are allied to the O.pedator ; Pcederus lusitanicus, from 
Portugal, similar to the southern variety of the P. littoralis, but distin- 
guished by the smaller spherical thorax, longer elytra, and legs nearly 
black, is particularly easy to be recognised from the black intermediate 
femora, which in the P. littoralis are yellow. 
The reporter has described Aleochara speculifera as a new species 
from Van Diemen’s Land (Arch. 1842, i. p. 134). 
Blanchard has published the Staphylini of D’Orbigny’s voyage. The 
new species are, Staphylinus luctuosus, from Bolivia, placed by the 
author near St. villosus and variegatus, and compared with the St. ery- 
throcephalus, but should, perhaps, stand nearer the St. erithacus; St. 
janthinipennis near the St. saphirinus and hilaris, from Bolivia ; St. 
crihratipennis, ibid. ; St.nigrescens, from Monte Video, near the St.fus- 
cicornis, Germ. ; St. chrysopterus, BrulL, from Bolivia, a good and dis- 
tinct species, the bad figure of which induced me, doubtfully, to 
refer it to St. ndbilis ; St. tristis, BL, from Monte Video ; Philonthus 
Gaudichaudii, from Rio Janeiro, Ph. rubromaculatus, from Monte 
Video, Ph. pallipes, from the islands of Parana, all three with five- 
punctured strias on the thorax ; Sterculia splendida, from Bolivia, dis- 
tinguished by the golden red posterior part of its body, incorrectly called 
fulgens on the plate by Brulle, and also so cited by myself; Gryptohium 
hasale, from the islands of Parana ; Cr. erythrothorax, from the district 
214 
