Plate I. — Continued. 



punctured strife, the interstices transversely wrinkled, the fourth, eighth, and twelfth with a row 

 of five or six large punctures. Length, 10-15 Hues. 



Occasionally found — sometimes floating on the sea at a considerable distance from the shore — 

 on the coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, the Isle of Wight, Devonshire, and Ireland ; and, probably, 

 not trnly indigenous. 



Fig. G. CARABUS VIOLACEUS, Linn. var. c. [F. Carabidse. G. Carabus, Linn.} 

 (C. cxasperatus, Duffs, Dej., Curtis.) 



Oblong, black ; sides of thorax and of elytra blue, violet, or coppery. Head and thorax finely 

 conflucntly punctured, the latter quadrate, with its lateral margins reflexed, and its posterior 

 angles produced and deflexed. Elytra elongate ovate, thickly granulate, the g^ranules united, and 

 forming distinct, but more or less interrupted and irregular elevated longitudinal lines. Length, 

 12-13 lines. 



Captured by Mr. Curtis in the Isle of Portland. 



The typical form, in which the granules on the elytra are finer, and present scarcely any trace 

 of lines, is abimdantly distributed, being found in sand-pits, fields, and gardens, and at the roots 

 of trees in woods, throughout the country. 



Fig. 7. PELOPHILA BOREALIS, Payk., Curtis. [F. Caribidfe. G. Pelophila, Dejean.] 



Above, brassy black, the sides of the thorax, and tlic elytra with a greenish or coppery tint ; 

 beneath, black. Head longitudinally wrinkled on each side near the eyes, and with two oblong, 

 shallow fovea? anteriorly between the antenuie, obsoletely transversely wrinkled behind. Thorax 

 wider than the head, transverse, narrowed posteriorly, thickly and coarsely punctured in front and 

 behind, lateral margins reflexed. Elytra nearly twice as wide as the thorax, oblong, very shallowly 

 striate, the stria> minutely punctured, the third and fifth interstices with a series of large shallow 

 impressions variable in number. Tlie legs are generally rusty red, sometimes brown, occasionally 

 nearlj' or wholly black. Length, 5-G^ lines. 



Sandy sho)es of Lough-Neagh, Ireland ; and in the Orkney and Shetland Isles. 



Fig. 8. BRACHINUS SCLOVET A, Fab., Curtis. [F. Brachinidse. G. Brachinus, defter, 



Bo.MBARDIER BEETLES.] 



Oblong, convex, rusty red ; elytra, bright blue ; the suture, from the base to within about one- 

 third of the apex, rusty red. Length, 2.^-3^ lines. 



Very rare in Britain. The following localities have been recorded: — Devonshire; Southend, 

 Essex ; Hastings, Sussex ; and Norfolk. 



Fig. 9. NEBRIA GYLLENHALII, Schcenh. [F. Carabidfc. G. Nebria, Latrcilk.'] 

 (Hclobia Gyllcnhalii, Curtis.) 



Black. Head with two shallow fovea; in front, and a small shallow impression on the crown. 

 Thorax heart-shaped, transverse, constricted behind ; the posterior angles acutely rectangular, 

 the lateral margins refle.xed. Elytra oblong, their sides nearly parallel, deeply striate, the stria; 

 more or less distinctly punctured ; a row of from three to five large punctures on the third interstice 

 contiguous to the third stria. Legs black ; tarsi reddish, or pitchy red, with the tips of the thighs 

 darker, or entirely rusty red. Length, 4-5 lines. 



An abimdant species in the mountains of North Wales, the north of England, Ireland, and 

 Scotland. 

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