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(Aub4) ; P. truquii (Peyr.) = micans (Gray.) ; Xantholinus atratus and 
lonyiventris (Heer) are varieties respectively of punctulatus (Payk.) and 
linearis (Fab.). 
Fauvel also gives (/. e. pp. 247-248) : — Philonthus hicolor (Redt.) = Quedius 
fulgidus (Fab.) j Quedius o'assus (Fairm.) = curtus (Erichs.) j Ocgpus brachy- 
pterus (Brull<S) = olens (Miill.) ; O. siculus (Aiibd) =pedator (Grav.). Fauvel 
regards the genera Creojohilusj JSmus, LeistotropJmSj and Ocypus as insulli- 
ciently characterized, and proposes to revert to the genus Staphylinus, with 2 
great subgenera Staphylinus and Ocypus. 
KiiAATz (Berl. ent. Zeits. 18G6, pp. 414 and 417) refers to Fauvel’s results, 
and states that Xantholinus atratus and longiventris appear to be distinct from 
punctulatus and Imearis, and objects to the proposed reestablishment of the 
great genus Staphylinus^ and to the union of Ocypus hrachypterus with O, 
olens. 
SciiiBA has given (Berl. ent. Zeits. 186G, pp. 37G-378) a list of the species 
of this family collected in Southern Italy by W. Fuchs. He enumerates 47 
species, 3 of which are described as new. 
Ocypus velutinus (Cristof.) = italicus (G6n^) according to Gautier des 
Cottes, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 18GG, p. 178. 
Crotch (Entomologist, hi. pp. 176-177) remarks on Quedius semiobscu?'us 
(Erichs.), Philonthus concinnus (Grav.), Xantholinus linearis (Oliv.), and 
Leptacinus pusillus (Steph.). 
Philonthus tamicomis (Muls.)is recorded as a British species by Rye, Ent. 
M. Mag. iii. p. 139. 
Quedius breoicornis (Thoms.) is added to the British list by Sharp ; also 
Philonthus concinnus (Grav.), Xantholinus lentus (Grav.), and Othius 7nyrme- 
cophilus (Kies.) by Crotch (Cat. Brit. Col.). See Rye, Ent. Ann. 18G7, 
pp. 64 and 65. 
New species : — 
Staphylinus {Creophilus) coquerelii (Fauv.), Coquerel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
4° S(Sr. vi. p. 317, Bourbon. 
Philonthus peregrimis (Fauv.), Coquerel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4« sdr. vi. p. 315, 
and P.fauvelif Coq. 1. c. p. 316, from Bourbon. 
Philonthus gratiosus, Brisout, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. vi. p. 359, Spain. 
Philonthus addendus, Sharp. A new species indicated in Crotch’s Cat. 
Brit. Col., and described by Sharp before the Entomological Society. See 
Rye, Ent. Ann. 1867, p. 48. 
Quedius fuchsii, Scviba, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1866, p. 378, Rome. 
Quedius pinetiy Brisout, 1. c. p. 359, Escurial. 
Quedius censors, Fauvel, Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. x. p. 340, Santiago. 
Xantholinus elongdtus (Germ. MS.), Fauvel, 1. c. p. 349, and X. andinus, 
Fauvel, 1. c. p. 350, Santiago. 
Pcederides. 
Fauvel (Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. x. pp. 24-25) gives the following synonymic 
notes on species of this group decipiens (Reiche) = lusitanicum 
(Grav.); L. volgense Qloc\\\i.')=iboreale (ITochh.), var. ; Cryptobium brevi- 
penne (Muls.) = fracticorne, var. jacquelini; Lithocharis cegyptiaea (Motsch.) 
= <?e6t7/co?’ms(Woll.) ; Sunius rutilipennis (Chevr.) = ^/wm(Aub4) ; Pcsderus 
ventricosus (Gant.) = batidii (Fairm.) ; P. minutus (Gaui) = limnophilus 
