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Psyche 
[March 
ON THE GENUS ABARIS DEJ. 
(COLEOPTERA; CARABIME) 
By S. L. Straneo 
Parma, Italy 
I have been trying for many months to secure typical 
examples of all of the known species of the genus Abaris 
Dej., for a revision of the genus. However, I have been 
unable to secure all of them, so I shall limit myself here to 
some notes on the genus. 
Chaudoir in his notes on Abaris (Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 
XLVII, 1873, p. 97) has written: “ Abaris picipes et strio- 
latus qui out . . . les segments abdominaux sillonnes” ; but he 
was wrong, because Bates in the original description of 
Abaris picipes said, “ ventre hand sulcato” and, “there is no 
appearance of a transversal groove on the ventral segments ” . 
He said also (Biologia Centrali-Americana, p. 85) that 
Abaris picipes Bates is really an Abaris , but he put the 
species with Abaris striolata Bates. In the Junk Catalogue, 
Csiki has omitted Abaris striolata Bates. This species, 
known to me only from description, has the claws of the 
tarsi pectinated (Bates, l. c., p. 85) and the ventral segments 
grooved ; owing to these characters, it should be inserted in 
the genus Abaridius Chaud. or in a new genus near Abaris 
and Abaridius . 
Here follows the description of a new species found in the 
material sent to me by P. J. Darlington Jr. of the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
Abaris darlingtoni n. sp. (fig. 1) 
Aeneous, lightly virescent, head and pronotum very shiny, 
elytra a little less nitid; antennae, legs, and mouth ferru- 
gineous, joints 1-3 of antennae a little darker in the middle, 
femora and apex of mandibles darker, lateral margin of 
pronotum ferrugineous, last ventral segment at apex broadly 
flavous. Length : 5.5 mm. ; max. lat. 2.1 mm. 
