562 DescrijHive Catalogue ^1896. 



but shoulders slightly rounded, striate, without any juxta-sutural 

 stria, intervals nearly plane or very little convex, smooth, and with 

 two equidistant punctures on the third interval ; under side piceous 

 black ; legs piceous red. Length 15 mm. ; width 5 mm. 

 Hab. Natal (D'Urban). 



Pterostichus intermedius. 



Black, shining ; antennae, palpi, and tarsi rufescent ; frontal im- 

 pressions short, rounded ; prothorax truncate at the base with the 

 anterior angles projecting, almost straight laterally from apex to 

 base, finely grooved in the centre, very faintly impressed laterally 

 near the base, and with a slight longitudinal basal sulcus between the 

 midian line and the outer margin, the latter hardly recurved ; ehi:ra 

 oblong with the humeral angles a little rounded, convex, normally 

 sinuate behind, striate, with a juxta-sutural stria, intervals plane, 

 smooth, and with only one median puncture on the third interval ; 

 under side and legs piceous red. Length 9 mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna). 



Pterostichus caffer, Dej., 



Feronia Caffra, Dej., Spec. Col., iii., p. 292. 



Feronia Lalandei, BruUe, Hist. Nat., iv., p. 373, pi. 15, fig. 2. 



Black, shining ; antennae, palpi, and tarsi rufescent ; frontal im- 

 pressions deep and long ; prothorax not much rounded laterally, but 

 a little narrowed from past the middle to the base, posterior part of 

 the outer margin a little recurved, disk smooth, median longitudinal 

 line moderately well defined, a short, narrow sulcate impression 

 between the central line and the outer margin ; elytra oblong with 

 the humeral angles prominent, deeply sinuate laterally above the 

 apical part, which is also slightly sinuate with the apical part of 

 the suture bluntly dentate on each side, striate, with a short juxta- 

 scutellary stria, intervals convex, subcarinate in the male, third 

 interval with a post-median and a supra-apical punctm-e ; under side 

 and legs piceous red. Length 17-20 mm. ; width 5|— 6^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Grahamstown, Queen's Town, Port St. John, 

 Port Elizabeth, Somerset East, Seymour), Natal (D'Urban). 



Pterostichus congruens. 

 Black, shining ; antennae, palpi, and tarsi ferruginous ; head 

 smooth, frontal impressions narrow, not deep ; prothorax hardly 

 narrowed behind and not deeply impressed in the posterior angle, 

 and with the posterior part of the outer margin not much recurved, 

 median discoidal line reaching from base to apex ; elytra oblong, with 

 the humeral angles prominent, normally sinuate behind, striate, with 



