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tunately, the holotype of P. ovicollis Schaeffer, renamed P. fenyesi 

 by Csiki, is a female from "California." The ratio of its pronotal 

 length to width is 0.93, and its pronotal midline is incised sharply, 

 with the result that it probably is not the same as the population 

 described as P. cochlearis. It is more likely that it belongs to the 

 northern subspecies of P. fenyesi; hence, that subspecies has been 

 designated as P. fenyesi fenyesi sensu stricto. 



Pterostichus (Leptoferonia) fenyesi Csiki 



Species description. — Same as the fenyesi group description plus 

 the following. 



Pronotum. — Midline sharply incised, area adjacent to midline 

 relatively flat. 



Sixth abdominal sternum of male. — Lobe very small or obsolete. 



Aedeagus. — Right paramere not bulbous. Median lobe noticeably 

 twisted, not as broad as in cochlearis; tip narrower and more definitely 

 directed to left; ventral surface and right side meeting abruptly, 

 forming a low ridge. 



5. Pterostichus (Leptoferonia) fenyesi fenyesi Csiki 



Figures 5, 35 



Pterostichus ovicollis Schaeffer, 1910, p. 393 [not Motschulsky, 1865, p. 265; not 



Reitter, 1884, p. 40].— Casey, 1913, p. 129.— Van Dyke, 1925, p. 75.— Leng 



and Mutchler, 1933, p. 12.— Hatch, 1936, p. 70. 

 Leptoferonia ovicollis (Schaeffer). — Casey, 1918, p. 337. — Leng, 1920, p. 56. 

 Pterostichus (Leptoferonia) fenyesi Csiki, 1930, p. 582 [new name for ovicollis 



Schaeffer].— Leng and Mutchler, 1933, p. 12.— Hatch, 1936, p. 704; 1953, 



p. 112. 



Subspecies description. — The characteristics below are found in 

 fenyesi fenyesi sensu stricto in addition to the characters listed above 

 for P. fenyesi and the fenyesi group. 



Pronotum. — Ratio of pronotal length to width 0.93-1.00, median 

 0.97, in males; ratio 0.92-0.98, median 0.94, in females. 



Sixth abdominal sternum of male (fig. 5). — Lobe small but 

 evident. 



Aedeagus (fig. 5). — Right paramere cone shaped. Median lobe 

 with tip rounded and directed to left; ventral surface concave, then 

 convex just before tip; ventral surface and right side meeting rather 

 sharply. 



Holotype. — Pterostichus ovicollis Schaeffer, female, USNM! 



Type-locality. — California, probably from Humboldt County and 

 possibly from north or east of the Eel River. 



Specimens examined. — 36. 



Distribution (fig. 35). — This subspecies has been collected from 

 Child's Hill Prairie, T. 9 N, R. 2 E, Humboldt meridian, south to 



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