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should have been almost inclined to regard them as generically 

 removed from their 9 , MrtSi-(Canarian) allies, — the scarcely expanded 

 (and only slightly subdavate) terminal joint of their labial palpi (I 

 believe, in both sexes) affording a marked difference from the immense 

 and largely securiform corresponding one (at any rate in the males) 

 of the normal members of that group ; but as such is the case, I 

 prefer treating them (at any rate for the present) as only very ano- 

 malous Tari. As regards their more evidently specific details, they 

 recede from the T. diseoideus in their smaller size and darker head 

 and prothorax, the latter of Avhich is more distinctly roughened and 

 punctured, more straightly truncated before and behind, and is much 

 more narrowed posteriorly (with the extreme hinder angles them- 

 selves more prominent and acute) ; in their alutaceous and more 

 shining elytra, which are shorter posteriorly (though rather more 

 produced in the centre), with their shoulders more acute, and with 

 their darker portions a little different, the basal patch being more or 

 less backwardly -produced between the third and fourth stria, and 

 the postmedial one larger and more suffused (extending on either 

 side to the seventh stria, instead of only the sixth) ; in their darker 

 palpi and antennas; and in their rather more coarsely serrated claws. 



Genus Pterostichits. 



Bonelli, Obs. Entom. i. Tab. Syn. (1809). 



(Subgenus Orthomus, Chaud.) 



2. Pterostichus haUgena, n. sp. 



P. apterus, niger, subnitidus ; prothorace subquadrato aiitice vix latiore, 

 in disco canaliculato (canalicula aiitice et postice abbreviata et abrupte 

 terminata), basi utrinque foveis duabus (una sc. interna angusta longi- 

 uscula subflexuosa lineaformi, et altera breviore latiore minus profunda) 

 impresso ; elytris (in fceniina saltern) subtilissime alutaceis, leviter sub- 

 crenulato-striatis, singido punctis duobus impresso, interstitiis planius- 

 eulis ; antennis pedibusque rufo-piceis. 



Long. corp. lin. 33.-4. 



P. apterous, black, and slightly shining. Prothorax subquadrate, being 

 but very little narrowed behind, and with the sides only very slightly 

 rounded ; scarcely as broad, even anteriorly, as the elytra ; with a deep, 

 but abbreviated, dorsal channel down the disk, — it being suddenly 

 shortened both before and behind ; and with two fovea? on either side 

 at the base, — the inner ones being rather long, deep, subflexuose, 

 narrow and lineaform, and abruptly defined ; and the outer ones short, 

 very broad and shallow (forming merely a depression). Elytra with 

 their sides almost parallel, and (at any rate in the female sex, for which 



