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XVII. Genus? CURTONOTUS. 3 Steph. 



(44) 1. Curtonotus convexiusculus. (Stephens.) Convex Curtonotus. 



Curtonotus convexiusculus. Steph. Illusir. Mandib. i, 138, 1, t. viii, f. 1. 

 Carabus convexiusculus. Marsh. Enl. Brit, i, 46:2, 82. 



Length of the body 5| lines. 



Taken in Lat. 65° : 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body dark piceous, sometimes a little bronzed. Antenna? and palpi rufous ; frontal impressions 

 short connected by a rather deep furrow : prothorax constricted and punctured at the base, depressed 

 on each side ; basilar impressions bisulcate ; posterior angles acute, recurved : elytra furrowed, fur- 

 rows punctured : sides of the ventral segments of the abdomen somewhat punctured and wrinkled, 

 those of the mid-breast grossly punctured : legs chestnut. 



(45) 2. * Curtonotus rufimanus. Red-handed Curtonotus. 



C. (rufimanus) nigro-piceus, nitidus ; antennis, palpis, manibusque rufis. 

 Red-handed Curtonotus, dark-piceous, glossy ; antenna?, palpi, and hands rufous. 



Length of the body 5 lines. 



Several taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This is extremely similar to the species last described, from which it principally differs in having 

 the legs of the colour of dark pitch, with the exception of the hands or anterior tarsi, which are 

 rufous : the sides of the ventral segments of the abdomen also appear less conspicuously punctured. 



(46) 3. * Curtonotus brevilabris. Short-lipped Curtonotus. 



C. f brevilabris J nigro-piceus ; labro brevi transversa ,■ antennis palpisque rufis ; elytris pedibusque castaneis. 



Short-lipped Curtonotus, dark-piceous ; upper-lip short, transverse ; antennae and palpi rufous ; elytra and legs chestnut. 



Length of the body 4j lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



3 At first sight Curtonotus appears merely a subgenus of Bradytus Steph., but the notch in the intermediate tooth of the 

 labium, and the dentated intermediate tibite of the male seem to afford good ground for considering them as distinct genera. 



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