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Excerpt from The Coleoptera of the British Islands, Vol. 3: A Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species Indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, With Notes as to Localities, Habitats, Etc
Staphylinidae. The characters of this family will be found fully discussed at the beginning of vol. Ii. The principal distinguishing ones are as follows z - Elytra truncate, with a straight suture, never dehiscent, very much abbreviated, so that the_greater part of the abdomen is exposed (except in rare instances); wings when present completely folded beneath the elytra; abdomen or hind body composed of seven segments, all freely movable, and all entirely, or almost entirely, corneous.
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