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27. AooNUM S0RDEN3, Kirhy. — Length of the body three lines. Two 

 specimens taken in lat. 54°. 



Body black, glossy. Head rhoinboidal ; mouth, mandibles at the tip 

 palpi at the base, and scape of the antennas, rufous ; frontal impressions very 

 slight : prothorax scarcely longer than wide, narrowest behind ; dorsal chan- 

 nel rather deep ; lateral margin underneath testaceous ; basilar impret-fiions, 

 oblong, deepish : elytra dusky-testaceous, in one specimen a little bronzed, 

 slightly furrowed, furrows impunctured ; between the second and third are 

 five punctiform impressions placed as in the last species : epipleura and legs 

 testaceous. 



[20] Agonum melanarium, De Jean. — Length of the body 4| lines. 

 Taken in lat. 54°. 



Body black, glossy. Mandibles at the tip, month and scape of antenna?, 

 piceous : prothorax nearly as long a.s wide; di.sk transversely wrinkled; late- 

 ral margin at the base much dilated, rather incrassated, and sub-anguiar; 

 posterior impressions large and distinctly punctured : elytra wider tban the 

 prothorax, sub-emarginate at the base , distinctly furrowed with very minute 

 and inconspic-uous punctures in the furrows ; three punctiform impressions 

 in the third furrow from the suture : legs piceous. 



This species is the American representjtive of A versutum, which it much 

 resembles. [Belongs to llafynus ; taken at Ottawa by Mr. Billings.] 



29 Agonum seminitidlm. Kirhy. — Length of body 4.^ lines. Taken in 

 lat. 54°. 



Body smooth, glossy, black underneath. Head greenish-bronzed, very 

 glossy, with frontal impressions lunular ; antenna^ longer than the prothorax; 

 prothorax greenish-bronzed with a copper tint, very glossy, channelled, disk 

 transversely and minutely wrinkled ; basilar impressions longitudinal, lateral 

 margin, particularly at the base, reflexed : elytra black-bronzed, less glossy 

 than the head and prothorax, lightly furrowed ; furrows punctured ; in the 

 interstice between the second and third furrows are five punctiform impres- 

 sions, two nearer the base and three nearer the apex of the elytrum, so that 

 the interval between the second and third is greater than that between the 

 others. 



Variety B. Second and third punctiform impressions not more distant than 

 the others. In this specimen, on the left hand elytrum, there 

 are only four impressions and on the other five, but in neither 

 are the second and third situated as in A. It may be a dis- 

 tinct species, but I can discover no other difference, 

 [27] 30. Agonum simile, Kirhy. — Length of the body 3i lines. Locality 



not stated. 



