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NOTES ON CTCINDELIBJE AND CARABIDM, AND DESCRIPTIONS 

 OP NEW SPECIES (No. 17). 



(Resumed from vol. ix, p. 52.J 

 BY H. W. BATES, F.L.S., &c. 



Sub-family CARABiNiE. 

 Nebria Lewist, s^-). n. 



N. lividce (L.) affinis, at minor et gracilior. I]Jongato-obJon(ja, 

 ochraceo-fulva ; collo, thoracis disco, plagaque magna elytroriim discoi- 

 dali commnni, ct jyectore, nigris ; tJioraceIo7igius cordato, angulis posticis 

 jiroductis, acutis ; elytris iaterstitio tertio impunctato, quartoque apice 

 valde elcvato. Long. 5^ lin. 



Smaller and more slender than N. livida ; in colour it differs in 

 tlie liead having only the broad neck, up to the posterior margin of 

 the eyes, black ; in the thorax having its whole central part of the same 

 colour, leaving the lateral borders pale ; and in the elytra being pale, 

 with a large rounded black patch behind the middle, continued some- 

 times along the suture to the base. The thorax differs in form in being 

 longer and less transverse, with the posterior narrowing much more 

 gradual, and the huid angles more turned outwards ; the borders are 

 punctured in a similar way. The elytra are quite parallel, and vnth 

 shoulders quite as well marked as in iV. livida, but the striae are finer and 

 more sharply scored, finely punctulate in their bottom, and the inter- 

 stices show no punctuation. Beneath black, with the apical part of 

 the abdomen tawny. 



Kawatclii, Japan. Sent home by Mr. Gr. Lewis's native collector. 



Nebria elliptipejwis, sp. n. 



N. intricatcB qffinis, srd magis elongata, elytris clongato-eVipticis 

 sericeo-opacis, striis vix punctulatis. Elongata, piceo-nigra ; capite ut 

 in N. intricata, sod oculis 2)fiilo minus p)^'0')ninulis ; thorace cordato, 

 postice gradatim angustato, aiigiilis posticis retrorsiim spectantihus ; 

 elytris sericeo-opacis, humeris fortiter rotundatis, medio parallel is, supra 

 striatis, striis vix punctulatis. Long. 7 lin. ? . 



Nearest resembling iV. intricata, at least in the form of the head 

 and thorax, but the elytra more elongated, with much rounder or 

 more effaced shoulders and wilh stri;r almost simple, a fine punctu- 

 ation shoAving only under the lens. The colour is black, rufescent 

 pitchy beneath, and with sub-opaque silky elytra. The head has a red 

 spot on the crown, and is punctulate and rugulose ; the eyes are 

 moderately prominent, and the neck is not narrowed. The palpi arc 



