INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. .55 Staphylinus. 
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55. STAPHYLINUS. AntenncE moniliform: 
feelers 4: Jhells half as long as the bod)r: 
, -wings folded up under the fhells ; tail 
not armed with a forceps, furnilhed 
with -2, exfertile veficles. 
Thefe are an exteremely rapicious tribe, devouring whatever in- 
fers they can catch, and frequently each other; many of them, 
when attempted to be caught, turn up the tail ; theya'iur arc 
Itrong and exferted, with which they bite' and pinch very hard; 
moft of them are found in mofi damp places, among putrid 
fubllances, and a few upon flowers. 
A. All the feelers filiform. 
Head thorax and fhells covered with ferruginous dovt'n : 
abdomen black with cinereous bands. 
Inhabits Siam ; fize of St, hirltui 
Antennae black, the laft joint ovate teftaceous ; Jhield projefting 
round dilated entire ; abdomen with 2 broad cinereous 
downy bands dotted with black : legs fubtellaceous : thighs 
black. 
Hairy, black ; thorax and hind-part of the abdomen ytl- 
low. 
Inhabits fandy places of Europe. Schaef. Icon, tab. l^. fg. 6. 
Pubefeent, cinereous clouded with black : abdomen black : 
lhanks teftaceous. 
Inhabits Germany ; largerthan St. murinus. 
Antennae black, the iirft joint ferruginous : black. 
Pubefeent, cinereous clouded with black : abdomen deep 
black : legs black. 
Found in rotten carcafles and dung. Schaeff Icon, t. 4. A?- 
Shells blue poliflicd beneath. Larnja 6-footed naked pale, the 
head and 3 firft fegments of the abdomen chefnut brown, tail with 
2 jointed brilllcs and a cylindrical tubercle beneath. 
Pubefeent, cinereous clouded : abdomen beneath coveted 
with filvcry down. 
Inhabits Saxieden ; fize of St. murinus, Paykull. Movogr. 16. g. 
Head grey villous with a yellowifti ilreak on the fore-part ; an. 
tennae hldck : Itgs black x thighs ferruginous at the tip. 
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