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TAB. LIV. 
STAPHYLINUS concolor. 
Serrated-horned Staphylinus. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 1 . Coleoptera. 
Gen. Char. Antenna? moniliform. Feelers filiform. 
Elytra halved, covering the wings. Body elon- 
gate. Tail ( of the females ) simple, exerting 
two oblong vesicles. 
Spec. Char. Black. Antennae serrated. Thorax 
naked, shining, with a dilated margin. Elytra 
downy, opaque. 
Syn. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 498. 4. 
Staphylinus dilatatus. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. i. 6. 
522 1 2 ? Syst. Eleuth. ii. 592. I 4 ? Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 2027. 30? Pay It. Faun. Suec. iii. 389. 
29. Latreille Hist. Nat. &c. ix. 326. / 4. 
Length of the body 9 A 
rof the head H t, i; nes 
Breadth < of the thorax 2£ i 
I of the elytra 2 \J 
W E were permitted to make a drawing of this singular and 
very rare Stupliylimis by our kind friend, the ingenious au- 
thor of Enlomologia Britannica, in whose cabinet the only 
British specimen of it ever taken is preserved. It is also 
found in Germany, Sweden, and France j for we think it 
is beyond a doubt the Staphylinus dilatatus of Paykull and 
