Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 1During the past twenty-five years the writer has been steadily accumulating as much material as possible in the Aleocharinae, with a view to ultimately describing and classifying the species, but pressure of other matters has thus far left too little time for any serious attempt in that direction. It is considered desirable, however, to describe this material now, so far as may be convenient and in a less systematic way, in order that the types may remain in this country for the benefit of coming students of our Staphy linidae. The species were all described as new, and, in vast major ity, are actually in this category without question, but in all cases where it has been possible to identify them with species previously described, I have simply substituted the name given by the previous author and allowed the description to remain. Although the species here described in the group Athetae may seem perhaps to be in ordinate in number, it can be said with great confidence that they represent only a fraction of the seemingly unending horde occurring in North America, where the Staphylinid fauna is far richer than in Europe, so the likelihood of having made any considerable num ber of synonyms of species previously described is, from every point of view, minute or negligible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.