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1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 565 



thorax, parallel as far as the posterior declivity, humeral angles 

 sharp, subdentate, normally sinuate behind, narrowly striate with 

 the intervals convex and sharply carinate, there is a scutellary stria, 

 and the third interval is impunctate ; under side and legs piceous 

 black. Length 16-18 mm. ; width 5^-6 mm. 

 Hab. Natal (D'Urban). 



There is one more South African species which I have not yet 

 been able to identify, and which was not among those Mr. 

 Tschischerine kindly identified for me. 



Pteeostichus soeor, Tschisch., 

 Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., xxv., 1891, p. 156. 



"Is probably very near P. (Feronia) caffer, Dej.," but is distin- 

 guished by the intervals of the striae of the elytra, which are more 

 plane than in Feronia (Gophostis) concinna, Sturm, (an European 

 species); the colour is also lustreless in the female. Head a little 

 less large than in P. hottentotus ; eyes projecting very little ; pro- 

 thorax quite similar, very slightly shorter; elytra a little less convex 

 with the striation almost similar, dull black in the female, and with 

 two punctures as in P. Lalandei ; under side smooth, except the sides 

 of the abdomen, which are hardly distinctly shagreened. The last abdo- 

 minal segment has four setigerous punctures. The male is unknown 

 to me. At first sight one would feel inclined to mistake this species 

 for P. hottentotus, which it much resembles ; but the more robust 

 antennae, the smaller head, and the normal intermediate legs induce 

 me to include it among Gophosomorphus.'' t 



Hah. South Africa. 



Pteeostichus lenis. Germ., 

 Insect. Spec. Nov., p. 22. 



Bronze on the upper part, shiny ; palpi, antennae, and legs ferru- 

 ginous ; under side piceous red ; head smooth, frontal impressions 

 shallow, rounded; prothorax truncate at apex, a little rounded 

 laterally, slightly narrowed behind, posterior angles quite rounded ; 

 outer sides grooved, but the margin not recurved behind, median 



* Mr. Tschischerine would seem, judging from the description here given, not 

 to be aware that the female of P. {Camptoscelis) hottentotus has intermediate 

 tibise of a normal shape, and I would not be surprised if P. soror proved to be the 

 female of P. hottentotus. 



t I have subsequently forwarded to Mr, Tschischerine the typical Feronia 

 caff r a, which he had not seen and which is the same as his F. Lalandei. He 

 was evidently not aware of the identity of the two at the time he published the 

 present revision of the South African Pterostichus. 



