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the apex, disk smooth with a faint, wavy transverse plication on the 

 supra-lateral basal depressions ; elytra elongate, slightly broader at 

 the base than the basal part of the prothorax ; elongate, slightly 

 ampliate at about the median part, and attenuate behind, moderately 

 convex, striate with the striae finely punctulate and the intervals 

 plane and smooth ; third interval with two punctures, a median and 

 an apical one. Length 19 mm. ; width 7^ mm. 



Distinguished by the shape of the prothorax, which is nearly as 

 straight as that of Teratoarsus schouberti, Tsch., Catal., p. 566; the 

 elytra are also ampliate towards the median part as in P. rugipeiinis, 

 but in a much lesser degree. Its nearest ally is P. congruens, but it 

 is more massive, and the striae of the elytra are punctulate instead 

 of being smooth. 



One male, presented by Mons. E. Oberthur, and labelled King 

 William's Town (Cape Colony). 



This species should precede P. rugipcnms, p. 564. 



Pterostichus congener. 



Black, shining; antennae, palpi, and tarsi piceous-red; head smooth 

 and without any frontal impressions ; prothorax a little rounded 

 laterally at apex, very little in the middle and a little more in the 

 posterior part, slightly narrower at base than at apex and with the 

 outer margin much recurved from past the median part to the basal 

 angle, supra-lateral impression broad, short and smooth, disk totally 

 smooth ; elytra as broad as the prothorax at apex, oblong, striate, 

 striae smooth, intervals smooth and sub-convex, third interval with 

 two sub-median punctures, outer margin sharply carinate. Length 

 13-14 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm. 



Smaller than P. undulatorugosus, Tsch., and with a nearly similar, 

 though more slender, facies ; the prothorax is a little straighter 

 laterally and not plicate, and the elytra are a little more convex. 



Hab. Transvaal (no exact locality). Sent by the State Museum, 

 Pretoria. 



Follows P. undulatorugosus, Catal., p. 564. 



Pterostichus fraudulens. 



Allied to P. congener, "but longer ; the head is similar ; the shape 

 of the prothorax is the same, but the outer margin is not quite so 

 much recurved in the posterior part, and the elytra are more 

 attenuate at the base, where thev are narrower by one-fourth than 



