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has its thorax more narrowed basally, with larger fossae and 

 differently sculptured elytra. These are the only species 

 with which it may be confounded. 



S. Length 7| ; breadtli 2\ lines. 



Wellington. One pair from Mr. J. H. Lewis. 



Pterostichus perhonus, sp. n. 



Ohlong, moderately elongate and convex, nitid, black ; legs 

 and antenniK piceo-rufous. 



Head (including the prominent eyes) rather narrower than 

 thorax, the elongate frontal impressions well marked. Thorax 

 2^ lines broad by If long, base and apex incurved, slightly 

 wider before the mid^lle than it is elsewhere, a little narrower 

 behind than in front, its sides very gently and regularly 

 rounded, and without any sinuosity Avhatever ; lateral margins 

 well developed, posterior angles quite obsolete ; dorsal groove 

 abbreviated, the curvate frontal impression feeble ; basal 

 fossse simple, not long, situated nearer the sides than the 

 middle; usually with feeble linear impressions across the 

 disk. Scutellum striate at base. Elytra a little wider than 

 thorax, oblong-oval, their shoulders rather narrov/, rounded, 

 and not at all dentiform, only slightly sinuate apically ; 

 their striee are deep, regular, and not perceptibly punctured ; 

 interstices generally wath many feeble aciculate impressions 

 across them, the third sometimes tripunctate ; the scutellar 

 striae short but deep. 



Legs normal, posterior femora dilated and subangulate. 



Underside glossy black, flanks of prosternum feebly 

 wrinkled, mesosternum punctate. Terminal ventral segment 

 bipunctate at each side of the middle at the apex in both 

 sexes. 



P. ovatelluSf Chaudoir, is no doubt the nearest species, but 

 in it the elytral striae are punctured. There are only two 

 sette on each side of the thorax. 



($ . Length 7^ ; breadth 2^ lines. 



Westport. 



Commander J. J. Walker, R.N., gave me a pair bearing 

 the number 5240. 



Pterostichus philpotti, sp. n. 



Subparallel, elongate, moderately convex, glossy black ; 

 legs and antennae rufo-piceous, terminal joints of the palpi 

 rufo-castaneous. 



Bead smooth, with rather feeble frontal impressions; 

 mandibles distinctly wrinkled ; eyes large and prominent. 



