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luczoti from vitreus and orinomus Kirby, by the form of the thoracic 

 side margins appears to me to be impracticable. 



The species placed here by LeConte under the name Pterostichus 

 oregonus (Proc. Acad. Phila., 1861, p. 339) is black, shining, the 

 elytra opaculate in the female, the prothorax not at all shorter than 

 wide, the converging sides subsinuate posteriorly and the sides 

 finely margined; hind angles nearly right, the latero-basal punc- 

 tures sparse and with the impression rather long, the elytral striae 

 fine and impunctate, the intervals flat, the fovese five in number and 

 the length 13.7-14.5 mm. It is said to resemble the eastern 

 adoxus very closely and has the thoracic margin no wider than in 

 that species. It must be a very exceptional type in the genus and 

 is unknown to me at present. 



Piesmus Lee. 



The type of this genus is the Feronia submarginata of Say, which 

 is placed as a synonym of monedula Germ., in the Munich catalogue, 

 among the chaotic mixture called Platysma. I have in my collec- 

 tion two species of Piesmus, one from North Carolina, more elongate, 

 with moderately impressed though coarse striae, which are distinctly 

 but not extremely punctured, which is the true submarginatus, and 

 the other, from Florida, having distinctly shorter elytra, the striae 

 of which are extremely coarse, in fact sulciform and still more 

 coarsely and conspicuously punctured, which may be regarded as 

 monedulus Germ. There is therefore no necessity for considering 

 Say's species a synonym, or even as a variety of monedulus. 



Lophoglossus Lee. 



The peculiar habitus of the species of Lophoglossus is consistent 

 throughout and quite distinct from that characterizing any of 

 the foregoing Pterostichid types, being remindful however in this 

 respect of Bothriopterus and Piesmus, so that it may be regarded 

 as one of the groups of the Platysma series. The body is oblong, 

 subparallel, only moderately convex, very polished, black as a rule, 

 with transverse prothorax and three dorsal foveae on the elytra. 

 The prothorax is strongly and conspicuously margined at the sides, 

 the latter becoming gradually oblique and usually broadly sinuate 

 posteriorly. The species are moderately numerous, the six in my 

 collection at the present time being easily recognizable as follows: 



