It tijc Coicapterous 6ciuis (ar sxilj- 

 0cims) Ccraciicrssiis. 



By EDWYN C. reed, of Santiago, Chile, Honorary 

 Member of the Bristol Naturalists' Society. 



/'^ EBOGLOSSUS may be taken as a sub-genus for the 

 species of Garabus found in Chile, or as a distinct 

 genus, closely allied to Garahns. 



But few species were known to the old authors, the first 

 species being described, I believe, by Fabricius, from the 

 Straits of Magellan, as G. suturalis ; then came another by 

 Eschscholtz, G. cMlensis; Laporte described a species as G. 

 buqueti, which Cuerin appears to have taken for G. chilensis, 

 Esch., though it is very distinct. 



At the time of the publication of Gay's Historia de Ghile 

 (1849), Solier only admitted three species, and formed the 

 genus Geroglossus for them. Lacordaire, in 1854, refused to 

 accept Geroglossus as a genus, though it is admitted by later 

 authors. 



Afterwards Hope described some species, and Gerstaecker 

 drew up a monograph of the known species, describing 

 some new ones. 



In 1874 I published a list of our species in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society, and described two new ones, 

 to which I afterwards added a third, bringing up the num- 



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