132 Memoirs on the Coleoptera J 



While these pages were passing through the press, there appeared 

 an article by Mr. Notman (J. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XXVII, p. 225), in 

 which two new species of Platynus were described. I have been 

 unable to identify imitans, even approximately, but foveiceps is, as 

 stated, probably allied to the Californian Agonum fossigerum; it 

 differs from anything known to me in the rugose surface of the 

 head and pronotum. The swelling of the surface outside of the 

 basal thoracic foveae, is a feature frequently observable in the 

 fossigerum group, becoming rather conspicuous in tumidulum, where 

 however, the pronotal surface is very smooth and shining. 



