190 Mr. Curtis’s Descriptions of 
Antenne as long as the head and thorax, slender, basal joint the stoutest, 
elliptic, 2nd not short, 3rd as long as the Ist, remainder nearly as long, 
the apical one a little longer (a). | 
Head suborbicular (16), narrowed behind the eyes, which are prominent and 
neither small nor remote from the thorax, which is much broader, slightly 
transverse and depressed, subquadrate, the sides convex before, the base 
straight, the angles acute: scutellum dividing the elytra, which are a little 
broader than the thorax, elongate-ovate, the apex slightly emarginate. 
Wings ample. Legs longish, thighs stout; anterior tibiæ not deeply 
notched, with a short thick spine at the apex and a longer one below, the 
others spiny outside, hairy within: ¢arsi hairy beneath, anterior with the 
3 basal joints dilated and obovate-truncate in the male (18, a fore leg). 
11. Metius HARPALIOI DES. Curt. 
Ceeruleo-piceus, nitens; thorace foveis duabus basalibus, marginibus labroque 
ferrugineis; elytris obsoletè striatis ; antennis, palpis pedibusque ochreis. 
Length 43 lines; breadth 2. 
Shining piceous with a bluish tinge: labrum and abdomen ferruginous ; palpi, 
antenne and legs ochreous; thorax with a very faint line down the mid- 
dle, and a large shallow fovea on each side of the base, the lateral and 
basal margins castaneous: elytra with faint punctured striæ, ist abbre- 
viated, and a line of strong punctures along the 9th. 
A male from Port St. Elena. 
12. ARGUTOR DUBIUS. Curt. 
Niger, nitens; thorace utrinque ad basin sulco profundo foveolato; elytris 
minutè striatis, strià prima baud abbreviatà ; antennarum basi, palpis, 
tibiarum anticarum basi, tarsisque castaneis. 
Length 44; breadth 14 lines. 
Shining black, clypeus indented on each side. Thorax quadrate, sides con- 
vex, a concave transverse impression in front, and a fine channel down 
the middle, base sparingly punctured, with a long oblique fovea on each 
side, with a deep channel at the bottom, the angles acute. Elytra emargi- 
nated at the apex, finely striated, the 1st not abbreviated but curved at 
