190 Mr. CuRTis's Descriptions of 



Antennœ as long as tlie head and thorax, slender, basal joint the stoutest, 

 elliptic, 2nd not short, 3rd as long as the 1st, remainder nearly as long, 

 the apical one a little longer {a). 

 Head suborbicular (16), narrowed behind the eyes, which are prominent and 

 neither small nor remote fi-om the thorax, which is much broader, slightly 

 transverse and depressed, subquadrate, the sides convex before, the base 

 straight, the angles acute : scutellum dividing the elytra, which are a little 

 broader than the thorax, elongate-ovate, the apex slightly emarginate. 

 IViiigs ample. Legs longish, thighs stout; anterior tihice not deeply 

 notched, with a short thick spine at the apex and a longer one below, the 

 others spiny outside, hairy within : tarsi hairy beneath, anterior with the 

 3 basal joints dilated and obovate-truncate in the male (18, a fore leg). 



1 1 . Metius Harpalioides. Curt. 



Cœruleo-piceus, nitens ; thorace foveis duabus basalibus, marginibus labroque 



ferrugineis ; elytris obsolete striatis ; antennis, palpis pedibusque ochreis. 

 Length 4| lines ; breadth 2. 



Shining piccous with a bluish tinge: luhrum and abdomen ferruginous; palpi, 

 antennœ and legs ochreous ; tliora.v with a very faint line down the mid- 

 dle, and a large shallow fovea on each side of the base, the lateral and 

 basal margins castaneous : eh/tra with faint punctured strise, 1st abbre- 

 viated, and a line of strong punctures along tlie 9th. 

 A male from Port St. Elena. 



12. Argutor dubius. Curt. 



Niger, nitens ; thorace utrinque ad basin sulco profundo foveolato ; elytris 

 minute striatis, stria prima baud abbreviatâ ; antennarum basi, palpis, 

 tibiarum anticarum basi, tarsisque castaneis. 



Length 4^; breadth if lines. 



Shining black, clypeus indented on each side. Thorax quadrate, sides con- 

 vex, a concave transverse impression in front, and a fine channel down 

 the middle, base sparingly punctured, with a long oblique fovea on each 

 side, with a deep channel at the bottom, the angles acute. Elytra emargi- 

 nated at the apex, finely striated, the 1st not abbreviated but curved at 



