60 MR. E. C. REED ON CHILIAN COLEOFTERA. [Jail. 6, 



Feronomorpha sulcata, Sol. I. c. p. 223. 

 Feronomorpha rufescens, Sol. I. c. p. 225. 



Lagarus chilensis. 



Lagaras chilensis, Dej. /. c. p. 251 (Feronia (Jrgutor)) ; Sol. I. e. 

 p. 232 (Feronia). 



This species has the metathoracic episterna long and narrow, the 

 presternum distinctly margined at the end, the hind tarsi grooved 

 at the sides ; but the elytra have a long scutellar striole, unlike the 

 typical Lagari. The thoracic fovese are single on each side and 

 sulciform, similar to the North-American Lagarus erythropus. 



Common in Central Chili. 



Pterostichus erraticus. 



Pterostickus erraticus, Guer. Mag. Zool. 1838, t. 225. f. 3. 

 (Platysma). 



Pterostichus rufipalpis, Curtis, I. c. p. 192, 1838. 



Pterostichus honellii, Waterh. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1841, vii. p. 123. 



Pterostichus tenuestriatus, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1864, 

 p. 262 (Parhypates). 



Pterostichus profundestriatus, Motsch. I.e. p. 263 (Parhy- 

 pates). 



Percus alienus, n. sp. (Plate XIII. fig. 8.) 

 Elongatus, subparallelus, niger subnitidus, palpis piceis ; capite 

 postice haucl angustato, oculis vix prominentibus ; antennis 

 paulo compressis ; thorace elongato quadrato-cordato, postice 

 gradatim sinuatim angustato, angulis piosticis rectis, basi lavi, 

 foveis profundis ; elytris humeris rotundatis, postice paidulum 

 dilatatis,apice late rotundatis sinuatis, supra punctato-striatis, 

 interslitiis paulo convexis, tertio unipunctato. 

 Long. 9-9! lin. <$ $ . 



This species offers all the chief characters of the European genus 

 Percus, of which it has also the facies, resembling a small, slender 

 P. siculus. The elytra are destitute of basal fold, the scutellum 

 lying on the depressed pedicle ; behind, the margins are a little ex- 

 planated before the sinuation, and have there two marginal striae 

 exterior to the row of large punctures. There are no humeral 

 carinse ; and the striae are rather loosely and not deeply punctured ; 

 a rudiment of basal striole exists in the form of a fovea on each side 

 of the apex of the scutellum. The fovea on each side of the base of 

 the thorax is distant from the angle, broad and deep ; the dorsal 

 line also terminates behind in a deep impression. 



This species is possibly the Feronia (Platysma') convexipennis, 

 Fairmaire, Coleop. Chil. pt. i. p. 1 ; but as that author places it in 

 the section Platysma, to which it has not the slightest resemblance, 

 and does not mentiou the absence of basal fold to the elytra, which 

 is the most conspicuous feature of the species, the identity is much 

 open to doubt. Even if it be the same, Fairmaire's name cannot be 



