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Show 48 MR. E. C. REED ON CHILIAN COLEOPTERA. [Jan. 6, the dark edging along the shafts of the centre tail-feathers, which in C. ruficollis are wholly dark, and in C. schcenicola are banded broadly rufous, terminating black and white. It is very near to C. rustica> Wallace, from the Island of Bouru, which is more rufous on the head and breast. MUN1A SUBUNDULATA, 11. Sp. Description.- <5 above pale umber-brown, darker on the head, pale grey on rump, a few feathers edged paler; the upper tail-coverts dull yellow; tail-feathers olivaceous umber-brown, faintly edged with the same yellow tint; quills pale chestnut on outer web, umber-brown on inner, and indistinctly barred. Sides of Jiead umber-brown, becoming dark chestnut on chin and throat; breast and flanks white, feathers very narrowly barred or margined rufous-brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, the latter sparingly streaked with brown; feathers of the back finely pale-shafted. Bill dark grey ; feet plumbeous ; irides red. Length 4*3 inches, wing 2*1, tail 1*7, tarsus '55, bill at front 0-45. 2 is duller brown above, with no white shafts to the feathers, a distinct green tinge upon the tail-feathers, otherwise as in M. undulata. Change of coloration in young males commences on centre of the throat, extending towards the base of bill into the dark chestnut, and towards breast into the undulated colouring of those parts. Obtained in the Munipur valley both on Lake Logtak and the head of the Barak river. It is very nearly allied to, but distinct from M. undulata, Latham, in which the undulations are broad, the general coloration more rufous, and the tail more pointed. It is also near to M. nisoria from Java and Malacca; but in that bird the tail-coverts are grey, with no trace of the fulvescent common to the two continental forms. Lord Walden was the first to notice this species as distinct, in specimens from Burmah, in his collection, which are identical with m y own from Munipur: he has kindly allowed m e to now describe it. 7. O n the Coleoptera Geodephaga of Chile. By E D W Y N C. REED, C.M.Z.S. [Received January 6, 1874.1 (Plate XIII.) In this attempt to enumerate the Chilian species of the Coleopterous families Cicindelidse and Carabidse the first difficulty is to define the area under consideration. The governmentsof Chili, Bolivia, and the Argentine Confederation have been trying for some years past to settle the question of the boundaries of their respective States. Chili claims dominion over the strip of country between the Andes (i. e. the line of water-parting) and the Pacific, from 24° S. to Cape |