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having been applied to a very different insect, tlie above is sub. 

 stituted for it. 



[A Platyniis of the division Agonum. — Lec] 



27. F. CONVEXICOLLIS. — Green varied with cupreous, all be- 

 neath black ; thorax submarginated, punctured behind. 



Length more than seven-twentieths of an inch. 



Body beneath black ; head green, with slight cupreous reflec 

 tions ; lab rum purple-black ; mandibles black ; thorax green, 

 elevated portion cupreous, margin depressed more perceptibly 

 towards the hind angles, breadth greatest in the middle, hardly 

 contracted behind, base as broad as the elytra and punctured ; 

 elytra green, slightly varied with cupreous, particularly at the 

 sutural base, striae with indistinct, distant punctures, interstitial 

 lines somewhat convex, third one with three distant punctures 

 behind the middle; postpectus punctured each side; feet 

 black. [51] 



I have seen but a single specimen, which was deficient in an- 

 tennae, palpi, and also in tarsi, with the exception of two joints 

 of the second pair ; these were not dilated. It was brought from 

 Missouri by Mr. Nuttall. 



[Belongs to Poecilus. — Lec] 



28. F. honesta. — Black ; beneath and feet piceous ; above im- 

 punctured ; thoracic lines profoundly indented ; lateral edge 

 excurved behind. 



Length more than three-tenths of an inch. 



Body black with a piceous shade, beneath piceous ; antennae 

 and palpi rufous ; labrum piceous ; thorax impunctured, broadest 

 before the middle, gradually contracted behind, dorsal and basal 

 lines profoundly indented, lateral edge excurved near the base, 

 basal angles rectangular; elytra piceous-black, deeply striated, 

 striae impunctured, interstitial lines convex, third one with a 

 puncture near the middle ; postpectus each side and peduncle 

 punctured ; feet piceous ; venter punctured each side at base. 



[Afterwards described by Dejean as Feronia/ascidita, and by 

 Laporte as Stomis americana. Overlooking the dorsal puncture, 

 I placed this species, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. 2d, ser. 2, 237, in 

 the division of Pterosticlius, having no dorsal puncture. — Lec] 

 1823.] 



