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anterior tarsi are a little stouter than the rest, but not dilated nor 

 furnished with any additional clothing below, the anterior tibiae are 

 deeply notched. As to the colour : the head and wing-covers are 

 black, the latter with the suture and margin of a light brown and 

 highly polished, the thorax is reddish and the legs are whitish. The 

 insect is very agile and ever ready to take to its wings. It is of 

 quite a peculiar appearance, imparted to it by its large eyes, small 

 curiously shaped thorax and rather plump elytra and abdomen. I 

 may further mention that I have observed the 4th joint of the 

 maxillary palpi to collapse when the specimens become quite dry, so 

 as to give them a different, spoonlike, appearance, apt to mislead any 

 one who has not examined fresh specimens. 



14. Harpalus advolans. JV. 



H. seneus, clypeo, labro, antennis mandibulisque brunneis, his 

 apice nigris, subtus testaceus, lateribus obscurior, pedibus flavis, 

 tarsis geniculis spinulisque brunneis, ore testaceo. Long. corp. 

 4f— 5| lin. 



Caput Iseve. Mandibulse unidentatse. Palpi art. ultimo elongato, 

 apice truncato. Menti dens simplex, obtusus. Ligula apice quad- 

 rate truncata, angulis acutis leviter productis, paraglossis inflatis 

 marginem anticum parum superantibus. Thorax longitudine sesqui 

 latior, dorso anticeque lsevis, basi rugoso-punctatus, 2-impressus. 

 Elytra striata, cum thorace anguste margin ata. Variat colore tes- 

 taceo-senea. 



Nocte ad lumen, sed ad hue non usquam alibi, non infrequenter 

 cepi. 



I have taken this species frequently at night on my table, but 

 never found it as yet anywhere else. It is not very distinguished, 

 for which reason I have mentioned the parts of the mouth in the 

 description, these being moreover not very constant in this genus. 

 The insect is of the usual oval Harpalus-form, of a dark metallic 

 green on the back and more or less yellowish or light brown below, 

 the colour of the back changing occasionally to a brownish green. 



15. Oodes piceus. N. 



0. ovatus, subconvexus, piceus, tarsis, palpis antennarumque arti- 

 culis 3 primis castaneis, palpis apice flavis. Long. corp. 4 lin. 



