Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 72. (Budapest 1980)

Last, H. R.: Records of New Guinea Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum

ALEOCHARINAE Zyras (Zyras) biroi sp. n. This species is similar to Z. (Z.) karimuensis sp. n. (i. 1.), but diners by having the head, pronotum, and elytra less densely and strongly punctured, the antennae have the last three segments white, in Z. karimuensis only the last two are white. Black, legs yellowish, tibiae darker, elytra reddish. — Head broader than long (3:2,5), shining, without microsculpture, with a few isolated punctures, eyes convex, their longitudinal diameter equal to the length of the temples from which arise a few porrect bristles; antennae with segments two and three of equal length, each a little shorter than the first, the remaining segments are as long as broad or slightly transverse; all segments with distinct slender bristles. — Pronotum about as broad as long, shining, without microsculpture, sparingly and irregularly punctured, a deep craterlike depression opposite the scutellum, a little broader at anterior third, with lateral erect bristles; anterior corners rounded, posterior corners more distinct, laterally weakly sinuate near posterior corners, posterior margins declivous, with an extremely narrow margin throughout. — Elytra about as broad as long, shining, without microsculpture, moderately strongly punctured, interstices much broader than the diameter of the punctures, with short setae and lateral bristles, suture narrowly bordered. — Scutellum shining, with a few large punctures. — Abdomen very shining, a row of punctures at the base of each tergite, eighth tergite with margin a little bisinuate, paratergites with short bristles at the apex of each, gradually narrowing to the apex. Legs long, especially intermediate and posterior tarsi, with short bristles. Length 13 mm. H o 1 o t y p e 9 : Sattelberg, Huon Golf, 1899 (BÍRÓ). Zyras (Zyras) biroi var. subllavus var. n. (Fig. 36) Differs from the type by having the elytra dusky yellow-red. The puncturation of the pronotum is also more irregular. Median lobe of aedeagus: Fig. 39. H o 1 o t y p e çf : Sattelberg, Huon Golf, 1899 (BÍRÓ). References FAUVEL, A. (1878): Les Staphylinides des Moluques et de la Nouvelle Guinée. — Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 12: 171-315, Pl. I-II. FAUVEL, A. (1880): Les Staphylinides des Moluques et de la Nouvelle Guinée (2

E Mémoire). — Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 15 (1879-1880): 63-122. Author's address: HORACE R. LAST Woodville, Hillside Walk Storrington 3788, Sussex England 11 Természettudományi Múzeum Évkönyve 1980