78 Description of New 



Easily distinguished from the preceding species with which 

 it agrees in all other respects, no string are, however, traceable 

 upon the elytra between the two near the suture and the in- 

 framarginal furrow. 



63. Bemeidium scydmcenoides. I\ T . 



B. ovaturn, convexum, obscure brunneum, elytris mactilis 4 magis min- 

 usve obsoletis dilutioribus, pedibus, palpis antennarumque art. 2 primis 

 testaceis, his apice reliquisque obscurioribus ; long. corp. 1 lin. 



Pra?cedenti simile, corpore robustiore, fortius ovato mngisque convexo, 

 thorace basi fortius quadrato facillime distinguenclum. 



In prov. occid. communissimum. 



YIII. Megaristeeus. n. g. Fam. Carabine, 

 trib. IIarpalid.e. 



Corpus oblongurn, depressum, glabrum. Caput mediocre antice 

 obtusum. Mentum profunde subquadrate emarginatum, edentatum, lobis 

 extus rotundatis apice acuminatis. Ligula minima oblonga, paraglossis 

 magnis connatis earn totam amplectentibus antice rotundatis subcordate 

 emarginatis. Palpi maxill. art. ultimo subcylindrico apice magis minusve 

 angustato truncato, lab. eodem obovato truncato. Labrum transversum 

 antice posticeque angustatum, margine anteriore profundius emarginato 

 setoso. Clypeus emarginatus. Mandibulss vaiidse trigone apice leviter 

 arcuatse, dextera mediocri labro obtecta apice acuminata medio 1-dentata, 

 sinistra robustiore porrecta (bine n. g. Megaristerus) apice obtusa medio 

 2-dentata. Antenna? humeros parum superantes, filiformes, art. 2o se- 

 quente parum breviore, reliquis suba?qualibus. Thorax rotundato- 

 cordatus, postice angu status angulis rotundatis, anticeleviter emarginatus 

 angulis distinctis. Elytra parallela apice rotundata. Pedes ut in g. 

 Acupalpo tarsis maris 4 ant. tamen art. lo subtus nudo. 



Yictus Harpalorum. 



Apparently closely allied to Amblystomus, differing, how- 

 ever, in the sculpture of the tarsi, the antennas, labrum and 

 palpi, and as in the diagnosis as given by Lacordaire in his g. 

 d. Col. the paraglossre of Amblystomus are simply said to be 

 rounded in front, a further distinction would appear to reside 



