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NEW COLEOPTERA AND MISCELLANEOUS 

 NOTES. III. 



By Charles Schaeffer^ 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Family CARABID^. 

 Calosoma irregulare new species. 



Black, shining. Head rather coarsely vermiculately sculptured ; front con- 

 vex at middle, scarcely impressed on each side; antennae about as long as 

 head and prothorax together, outer joints with narrow glabrous space. Pro- 

 thorax in its widest part nearly twice as wide as long; anterior angles 

 rounded; sides arcuate in front, from a little before middle somewhat ob- 

 liquely narrowing to the basal angles, which are rather slightly produced and 

 rounded ; surface convex, anteriorly on each side depressed ; lateral margin 

 hot reflexed, except slightly near basal angles ; marginal bead at sides a little 

 stronger near base than at apex ; surface rather coarsely confluently punctate, 

 especially at sides and base. Elytra rather short, a little longer than wide, 

 oval ; humeri broadly rounded ; sides evenly arcuate ; lateral margin narrowly 

 reflexed, not serrate basally ; surface with twenty-two striae, the strire not 

 punctate, these and the narrow, convex intervals irregularly interrupted almost 

 as in Cychrus obliquus ssp. convergens. Hind tarsi slender, nearly as long as 

 the tibiae. Length from the anterior margin of prothorax to apex of elytra 

 15 mm.; width 8 mm. 



Castella, California. 



A peculiar and distinct little species. The head and prothorax are 

 sculptured almost as in discors, but the sculpture of elytra is unique 

 and is nearly as in Cychrus obliquus ssp. convergens. This species 

 has also more elytral striae (twenty-two) than any other species of 

 Calosoma known to me. The type specimen has the lateral margins 

 of elytra faintly bluish while another specimen in my collection has 

 the margin concolorous. 



Calosoma subasperatum new species. 



Black, shining. Head moderately strongly punctate ; punctures connected 

 here and there by short transverse or oblique lines ; frontal impression on each 

 side deeply impressed ; antennae about as long as the head and prothorax. 

 Prothorax in its widest part not quite twice as wide as long; sides arcuate in 

 front, obliquely narrowing to the basal angles, which are moderately strongly 

 produced ; lateral margin distinctly reflexed and with about nine, erect setae 

 near the marginal bead ; surface more densely punctate than the head, punc- 

 tures at sides and along basal margin coarser and more or less confluent. 

 Elytra oblong; humeri broadly rounded; sides evenly arcuate; side margin 



