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MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
Family Staphylinidae. 
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Lasthrobium cavicola Miiller. The only true cave staphylinid; is also found under stones in Italy. 
Xantholmus tenuipes Bandi. “ Yenx rudimentaires ” (Fauvel). 
Xantholmus myops Fauv. 
This species, according to Fauvel, Dr. Sharp tells me, has eyes. These two “ subanophthal- 
mous” species, says Bedel, are found under deeply buried stones, and the first notably in the 
neighborhood of caves. Bedel (p. 44) remarks: “ The Staphylinidae includes, especially in the 
Mediterranean region, a relatively considerable number of terricolous or lapidicolous species, of 
very small size, and for the most part blind. For example: 
Phlceocaris (Scotodytes) paradoxa Sanlcy. Pyrdndes-Orientales. 
Phlceocaris laticoUis Fauv. Piedmont. 
Leptotyphlus sublcevis Fauv. Corsica. 
Cylindrogaster emeus Perr. 
Scotonomus raymondi Saulcy. Italian islands. 
Mierillus subterranem Rafli. Algeria. 
Apteranillus dohrni Fairm. Algeria. 
Apteranillus raffrayi Fairm. Algeria. 
Apteranillus convexifrons Fairm. Algeria. 
Leptusa, etc. 
Mycetoporus spelmus Scriba. Asturia, Spain. 
Typhlocaris silvanoides Dieck. Morocco. 
“ Remarkable for the great reduction of the eyes ” (Bedel). 
Family Carabidae. 
Illaphanus stephensii MacLeay. Australia; eyeless. 
Pterostichus microphthalmus Delar. Pyrenees. 
Treckus microplithalmus Miller (spelmus Reitt.). Carpathians, under flat stones; and caves of Demanova, under 
stones. 
The following species of Treehus, says Bedel, have the eyes more or less reduced in size, and 
live under large stones, deeply buried in the earth, in the Alps. Dr. Sharp writes me: “The eyes 
in many Trechi are more or less reduced, but they are not blind beetles.” 
Treehus subterraneus Miller. 
Treehus longhii Comolli. 
Treehus baldensis Putz. 
Treehus strigipennis Kiesw. 
Treehus oehreatus Dej. 
Anophthalmus clairi Aubd. Maritime Alps. 
Anophthalmus santosquensis Aubd. Maritime Alps. 
Anophthalmus pilosellus Miller. Is not a cave-dweller. Carpathians and eastern Galicia. 
The group of Antiphodrus contains a certain number of species which are not known to be 
cavicolous, but whose habits approach those which are. Their eyes are reduced in size. They are : 
Antisphodrus elegans Dej. Southern Austria and Turkey. 
Antisphodrus pseudapostolus Schf. Country unknown. 
Antisphodrus macropus Chaud. Lombardy. 
Antisphodrus ghilianii Schaum. Italy and perhaps kbppeni. Mots, from the Crimea and obtusangulus from 
Asia Minor. 
Anillus debilis Lee. 
Anillu8 fortis Horn. 
Anillus dohrni Ehlers. 
Petrocharis eggersi Ehlers. West Indies. 
__ Reicheia lucifuga, etc. Six species almost blind, the eyes being aborted; peculiar to the Mediterranean basin. 
_ Reichia urlaubi Saulcy. 
Reiehia raymondi Putz. 
Reichia palustris Saulcy. 
Reiehia prceeox Schaum. 
Reichia frondicola Eeitt. 
Reichia baudii Eag. 
Geocharis sp. 
Dichropterus sp. 
Scotodipnus 7 sp. 
Microtyphlus 7 sp. 
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