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ADEPHAGA 



2. Anchomenus cyanopis 





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antennis 



pedibus piceo-nigris ; capite ovali ; thorace quam caput multo latiore, ovato, angulis posticis fere obsoletis, 

 lateribus leviter areuatis postice magis quam antice angustato, margine laterali tenui, postice perparum 

 explanato vix elevato, supra toto lsevi, foveis basalibus fundo distinete impressis ; elytris gracilibus, apice 



bus plerumque in medio interstitio sitis. 



paull 



Long. 4 lin. 



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Hal. Mexico, Puebla (Salle), Guanajuato (Duges, coll SalU), Mexico city (Flohr). 



This species is confounded with A. alcyoneus in the Salle collection ; and I received it 

 many years ago from Paris under the same name ; but it is perfectly distinct, and more 

 nearly allied to A. extensicollis than to A. tristis, to which Chaudoir justly compared 



his aly 



The form of the thorax is totally different, being a slender oval, with 



lateral margins scarcely dilated or reflexed, and the surface nearly plane, the same 

 member in alcyoneus being transverse oval or suborbicular, with lateral margins behind 

 so much expanded and reflexed that the base of the thorax is rendered concave. 



3. Anchomenus alcy 



Mosc 



de Arriba (Salle), Las Vig 



Anchomenus transpunctatus, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 593 2 . 



Hah. Mexico \ near the capital 2 (Flohr), San Antonio 



(Hoge). 



As stated above under A. cyanopis, two species have been mingled together by French 



s species, 



entomologists under A. alcy 



Unfortunately I redescribed Chaudoir 



misled by an erroneous determination. 



4. Anchomenus anthr acinus. 



Agonum anthracinum, Dej. Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 739 \ 



Hob. Mexico \ Cuernavaca, Peras, Guanajuato (Salle), Las Vigas, Cordova (Hoge). 



5. Anchomenus scutifer. (Tab. IV. fig. 22.) 



Anchomenus scutifer, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 594 \ 



" Elongato-ovatus, niger, nitidus, supra leviter cyaneo-tinctus ; antennis articnlo basali rufo; capite lsevi, 

 oculis vix prominulis ; thoraee magno, ovato, laevi ; elytris thorace vix latioribus, acute et fortiter striatis, 



4-5 



" Long. 4|-5| lin. tf $ ." 



Hah. Mexico, near the capital (Flohr) \ Puebla, Toluca (SallS), Las Vigas, Jalapa 



(Hoge). 



Closely allied to A. anthracinus, which is also often dark violet or black ; but it differs 



in the much greater relative size of the thorax, the sides of which are more broadly 



explanated, especially near the hind angles. 



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