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Show 1874.] MR. E. C. REED ON CHILIAN COLEOPTERA. 69 LOBIUS (?) ERYTHROPUS, Sol. I.e. p. 139 (Dromius). Obs-The genus Lobius is well distinguished from Dromius and its allies by the rather long, linear, and sharply truncated apical joints of the palpi. The mentum has a rather large tooth in its centre. DROMIUS SULCATULUS, Sol. I.e. p. 139. DROMIUS NIGROTESTACEUS, Sol. I.e. p. 142. Common in Central Chili. Obs.-Dromius pictus, Sol. I.e. p. 141, is no doubt a Mimodromius, and not a Chilian, but a Pampa species. The following I do not know :- DROMIUS CHILENSIS, Dej. 1. c. p. 358. DROMIUS MACROCEPHALUS, Sol. I.e. p. 140. OXOIDES OBSCURUS, Sol. I. c. p. 148. I have never met with this insect. According to Solier it is distinguished from Dromius by the terminal joints of the palpi being tumid and oval; the labials briefly truncated, the maxillaries acute. In these characters Dromius sulcatulus approaches it rather closely. The description of the species coincides pretty well with small examples of D. sulcatulus ; and I strongly suspect it to be nothing more than the male of that species. VARIOPALPUS CRUSOEI, n. sp. V. humerali forma similis ; at difert oculis multo magis promi-nentibus, thorace rufo, elytrisque distincte striatis. Depres-sus, nigropiceus, palpis, pedibus elytrisque utrinque maculis duabus fulvo-testaceis ; capite nigropiceo, collo rufescente thorace breviter cordato, angulis posticis productis rectis paulo explanatis, lobo basali distincto; elytris striis omnibus integris late impressis: macula prima magna paulo obliqua ab humeris striam primam attingente, macula secunda apicali; margine laterali pallido. Long. 1| lin. I found this species under stones at an elevation of 1000 feet on the Island of Juan Fernandez. VARIOPALPUS HUMERALIS, Sol. I.e. p. 149. A common insect in Central Chili. VARIOPALPUS BREVICOLLIS, Germ. Ann. Univ. Chile, 1855,p. 386 (^Cymindis). Differs from V. humeralis in the rather more robust antennae and in the shorter thorax. The elytra are shining piceous, with obsolete striae ; the head black ; the rest of the body pale rufo-testaceous. I do not know whence Germain obtained this insect. Obs.-The genus Axinopalpus, Leconte, two years posterior in date |