REVISIONARY NOTES ON THE GENERA 
OF EUCHEILINI 
(COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE) 
By Hans Reichardt 1 
Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, 
Sao Paulo, Brazil 
In the course of my studies on Neotropical Carabidae I have dis- 
covered several interesting taxonomic novelties about the endemic 
tribe Eucheilini which seem to be important enough to be reported 
on. Even though I have examined the types of the species of Euchei- 
lini which are preserved in the Museum National d’Histoire 
Naturelle, Paris, in July, 1964 2 , it is as yet imposible to revise the 
tribe at the species level, since the species of Inna, one of the two 
genera of Eucheilini, are very poorly understood at present. Material 
in collections is very scarce. I hope that in the near future accu- 
mulation of enough specimens will allow a specific revision of this 
interesting tribe of Carabidae. 
The material on which this revision is based has been borrowed 
(and partly also studied in loco) from the Departamento de Zoologia, 
Sao Paulo (CDZ) , the Museu de la Universidad de La Plata, 
Argentina (MLP), the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. (MCZ), the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 
Paris (MNHN) and the United States National Museum, Wash- 
ington, D. C. (USNM). The loan of this interesting material is 
gratefully acknowledged. 
The tribe and the genera included in this revision are not formally 
redescribed, since it seems to me that for the time being the char- 
acterization presented below is enough. 
Tribe Eucheilini 
Eucheilinae Bates, 1883, Biol. Centr. Amer., Col., 1 ( 1 ) :1 68. 
Periglossinae Liebke, 1929 Ent. Anz., 9:247. new synonymy. 
Euchilini; Csiki, 1932, Col. Cat., 124:1585; Blackwelder, 1944, Bull. U.S.N. 
Mus., 185:70. 
Periglossini ; Csiki, 1932, Col. Cat., 124:1585; Blackwelder, 1944, Bull. U.S.N. 
Mus., 185:70. 
Eucheilini; Ball, 1960, Beetles of the U.S.:164. 
Currently at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 
Manuscript received by the editor December 1, 1965. 
2 A trip supported by the Evolutionary Biology Committee at Harvard 
University; this support is gratefully acknowledged. 
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