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scribed ; IL ohsenripmnis (Sol.) ; Olujoia pygnum (Sol.) 5 Myllrma parvicolHs 
(Kraatz)= J/. dihdipes (Fairm. et Germ.) ; Ilahrocerus marginicollis (Sol.), of 
which Tacliyp. rufescens (Sol.) is a variety ; Qiiedius leiocephalus (Sol.) ; Qu. 
pyrostoma (Sol.) ; Thilontlius impressifrons (Sol.) j Ph. chilensis (Sol.) 5 Ph. 
pyropterm Staph, rnjipcnnis (Sol.); Ph. punctipennis (Sol.); Ph. 
hisidcatus (Sol.); Othim angustatus (Sol.), described ; Echiaster dcpressm(^o\.')’y 
Lithocharis vittatipennis (Fairm. et Germ.) ; Lithocharis fusciventris (Fairm. et 
Germ.); Stilicus chilensis (Sol.); Gnathymenvs apterus (Sol.); Stenus gayt 
(Sol.) ; Oxytclus sulcatus (Sol.) ; T'eropaJpus sxduralis (Sol.) ; 2'rogophlaeus 
sobrinus (Fairm. et Germ.) ; Ancyrophorus ohscurus (Sol.) ; A, lideipes (Sol.) ; 
Ilomahtrichus impressicollis (Sol.) ; H. striaUts (Sol.) ; and Physognathm oh- 
scums (Sol.). 
According- to Kraatz, Berl. entom. Zeits. 1864, p. 132, Oxypoda forticornis 
(Fairm. et Brisout) is not distinguishable from O. hcemorrhoa (Sahib.) = 
promiscua (Erichs.) ; Ilomalota immmida (Brisout) is identical with II. nudi- 
tiscxda (Thoms.) ; II. islandica (Kraatz) is identical with H. arctica (Thoms.) ; 
II. laticeps (Thoms.) = II pxmiila (Kraatz) ; and Quedius tomentoso-maculatus 
(Cornelius) is the same as Q. auricomus (Kiesenw.). 
Peedems. According to Fauvel (Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. p. 12), Peederus 
mimdxfs and P. corsicus (Gaut. des Cottes) are varieties of P. limnophilus 
(Erichs.) ; P. longicollis (Gaut.) = P. riparius (Linn.), 1. c. p. 13; P. vcntricosus 
(Gaut.) = P. hrevipennis (Erichs.), ibid. 
Kraatz records the occurrence in Germany of the following Staphylinidre : 
Ilomalota nudiuscula (Thoms.) ; II. thinohia (Thoms.) ; Stenus punctipennis 
(Thoms.); S. longitarsis (Thoms.); Corxjphium foveolatum (Thoms.) ;• and 
Oxytclus maritimus (Thoms.). Berl. ent. Zeits. 1864, pp. 47 & 48. 
Bye (Ent. M. Mag. vol. i.) has described the British species of the genus 
Stenus, of which he enumerates 62. 
Bye (Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. pp. 155-160) characterizes eight British species 
of the genus Bolitohius, in which he includes Mcgacromis (Steph.). 
Saulcy (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. tome iii. p. 658) gives comparative cha- 
racters of Myrmedonia hippocrepis (Saulcy) and 31. physogastra (Fairm.). 
Acylophmiis glahricollis (Lac.) is figured by Bye, Ent. Ann. 1865, fig. 8. 
New genus : — 
Echidnoglossa, Woll. Cat. Can. Col. p. 530. Nearly allied to Atdalia, but 
with all the tarsi 5-jointed, no visible paraglossoc, and the anterior portion of 
the ligula very long, narrow, parallel, minutely bifid at the apex. Sp. E. 
coxistricta, Woll. p. 631, from Tenerifle. 
New species : — 
Atdalia jnmcticollis, Sharp, Broc. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1864, p. 45, from Perth- 
shire and Shetland. 
Falagria chilensis, Fauvel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. tom. iv. p. 118, from 
Chili. 
31'yrmcdonia cavifrons, Perris, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. tom. iv. p. 279, 
from Algiers. — M. harhara, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. tome iii. 
p. 638, from Bone in Algeria. 
Coproporus gallicus, Perris, I, c. p. 280, France. 
