staphylintd;e. 
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same subject, published in the same country, and also restricted to French 
species. MM. Mulsant & Bey, however, have apparently recognized a want 
in this respect, and now give the introductory portion of the monograph 
of which they have, in various places and at different times of late years, 
published scattered instalments [Zool. Bee. xii. p. 295J. After 60 pages 
of generalization, the authors divide their tribe of Brevipennes into 
three chief groups, Staphylinides, Micropeplides, and St^nides. Of 
these, the first consists of fifteen families, Staphyliniens, Xantholiniens, 
P^d^riens (including Evsesthetus), Oxyporiens, Oxyteliens, Phl4ocha- 
riens, Trigonuriens, Proteiniens, Phleobiens, Omaliens, Pholid'3ns, 
Habroc^riens, Tachyporiens, Trichophyens, and Aleochariens. 
The present vol. includes the Staphyliniens ; the plates consisting of 
outlines of various small points of external anatomy. 
The Xantholiniens \_XantholinideSy infra] are in like manner discussed 
simultaneously in M^m, Ac. Lyon, xxii. These two papers are, but for 
the table of contents to both publications, anonymous. 
Much unnecessary speculation is entered upon as regards the 
Stephensian species, in all probability quoted at second hand. 
Various synonymical remarks [mostly already recorded or incorrect] by 
A. Fauvel ; Ent. MB. i. pp. 61 & 62. 
Aleocharides . 
This group apparently contains some insects directly connected with, 
or descended from, the Oxytelides, and others from the TachyporideSy 
and a new genus is described [see Tachyporides'] apparently intermediate 
in structure between it and the latter. D. Sharp, Ent. M. M. xii. p. 199. 
Aleochara succicola, Thoms., is not lygcsa, Ktz., but = mcesta, Grav. ; 
A. mcestay Thoms., probably = villosay Mann. ; G. Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. 
1876, p. 174. 
Myrmedonia collaris seen to devour ants ; L. Mesmin, Feuil. Nat. vi. 
p. 118. 
New genera and species : — 
Phymaturay J. Sahlberg, Enum. Col. Brach. Fenn. p. 85. Hitherto 
associated with Dolitocliaray but with the head sub-inserted, slightly 
narrowed behind the rather prominent eyes; difEering also in the 
stucture of the antennas and the transverse thorax, which is slightly 
margined at the base, and hardly narrower than the elytra. For Bolito- 
chara hrevicolliSy Ktz. (p = Homalota nitidicoUiSy Fairm.), and P. gyro- 
pheanoidesy p. 86, Finland, queried as a pale var. of that species. 
EurylophuSy id. 1. c. p. 117. Besembles Athetay but nearer Oxypoda in 
the structure of the tarsi, differing in the very elongate, slender, falcate, 
toothed mandibles, the structure of the labrum, and the large head. For 
E. grandicepSy p. 118, Finland. 
Myrmigaster \_Myrmecog-]y D. Sharp, Tr. E. Soc. 1876, p. 50. Pro- 
bably allied to Dinarda, possibly through Corotoca. For M. singularis, 
p. 51, Ega. 
Autalia aliay V. Gredler, 0. H. xv. p. 105, Tirol [= A. puncticollisy 
Sharp, 1864]. 
