PCECILIDiE. 37 



DESCRIPTION. 



Tins species is nearly related to P. cupreus, and is its American representative ; but it differs 

 from it in several important characters. Body glossy, underneath black, above bronzed.. Head 

 not punctured ; frontal impressions nearly round ; three first joints of the antenna? rufous, with the 

 longitudinal ridge on the third, which distinguishes the species of this genus, black, the rest of the 

 antenna? is black : prothorax with a slight shade of green, channelled, somewhat depressed at the 

 base ; disk transversely wrinkled ; lateral margin dilated posteriorly ; basilar impressions double, the 

 exterior one punctiform, the interior longitudinal : elytra with a shade of copper, deeply furrowed ; 

 furrows scarcely punctured with convex interstices, and four punctiform impressions between the 

 second and the third, all adjacent to the latter : sides of the ventral segments of the abdomen 

 wrinkled and punctured, those of the breast grossly punctured : legs dark chestnut. 



Variety. B. With the legs and palpi ferruginous, furrows indistinctly punctured. 



C. With the furrows of the elytra distinctly punctured. 



D. Entirely black with the sides of the prothorax impunctured, elytra violet. 



(49) 2. * P(ecilus castanipes. Chestnut-footed Pcecilus. 



P. (castanipes) ater, nitidus ; prothorace postice leviter foveato vix punctulato ; ehjtris striates : striis lavibus, trifoveolatis. 

 Cbestnut-footed Pcecilus, black, glossy ; prothorax with slight basilar scarcely punctured impressions ; elytra lightly fur- 

 rowed ; furrows impunctured, with three punctiform impressions. 



Length of the body 5£ lines. 



One specimen only taken. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species differs from variety D of P. lucublandus, which it much resembles, in being entirely 

 black ; in having slighter basilar impressions less distinctly punctured : it has likewise only three 

 punctiform impressions on the elytra, the granular reticulations of the substance of which are also 

 more easily discovered. 



(50) 3. Pcecilus chalcites. (De Jean.) Bronzed Pcecilus. 



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Feronia (Pcecilus) chalcites. De J. Coleopt. iii, 211, 5. 



chalcites. Say. Amer. Trans. N. S. ii, 56, 37. 



Carabus chalcites. Melsh. Cat. 



Length of the body 5 lines. 



Only a single specimen taken. 



