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NOTES ON CARABIDH, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF New eenetes vo. 10). 
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Genus STOLONIS. 
Motschoulsky, Bull. Moscou, 1865, No. 4, p. 230. 
In general form, the species of this genus resemble certain Ancho- | 
meni (e.g., A. albipes), being of slender figure and glossy black or 
pitchy colours; but the three dilated joints of the anterior male tarsi | 
being obliquely produced interiorly betray a much cluser relationship with | 
Loxandrus. This character, although the most important one offered | 
by these insects, was omitted by Motschoulsky. The genus consists: 
of a considerable number of species, recognizable by the abruptly | 
rounded thorax, generally constricted into a narrow waist at the base, 
and by the white colour of a portion of the antenne, a feature common | 
to many distinct genera of Carabide from tropical America. Like the 
Lowandri, they have a single large puncture on the third interstice of 
the elytra, and no short scutellar stria. The anterior tibie in some of | 
the species are quite as slenderas in the typical Anchomenine; aw) 
character which would bring them within that sub-family, according to) 
the system of Erichson and Lacordaire. The mentum has an obtuse) 
tooth in the small, shallow emargination; the ligula is triangular, will 
the upper edge broad and straight, furnished with two bristles, and sur-_ 
passed in length by the narrow membranous paraglosse. The palpi 
and three basal joints of the antenne are naked. The genus is very 
closely allied to Oxyerepis, Reiche,* in which the elytra are thickly 
punctured and pubescent. This character suggests a relationship with | 
the Lachnophoring ; and, in fact, one species, at least, of Sola 
(Anchomenus elegans, Dej.) was placed in Anchonoderus by Reiche ;) 
both genera, however, differ from the Lachnophorine in their A | 
palpi and the three basal joints of their antennz, besides their oblique 
fore tarsi in the g. Oxycrepis is distinguished from Sfolonis by the | 
ovate thorax, not constricted or much narrowed behind, as well as by | 
the densely punctured elytra. 
The species of Stolonis are found under decayed leaves, &c., 
moist situations, and the genus constitutes one of the hore 
forms of Carabide of tropical America. | 
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Srotonis notuLa, Motsch., Joe. cit., Venezuela. 
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STOLONIS FULVOSTIGMA, N. sp. 
St. notule (Motsch.) simili§at major; piceo-nigra, iridescens ; capite levi, pone 
oculos modice angustato, oculis® prominulis ; thorace antice lato, rotunduto, basi con- 
as = i 
*Oxyerepis leucocera, Reiche/ Fae ay Venezuela, appears to occur ane at Bahia in 
Brazil, a specimen I obtained from Mr. Edwyn Reed’s collection made in that province agreeing 
pr ecisely with Reiche’s description. 
