52 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



Harpahts litigiosui, Dej. Spec, des Col. iv. 361 (1829). 

 , Heer, Fna Col. Helv. Ill (1841). 



Habitat Maderam australem, in saxosis planiu.sculis prope sinum Praya Formoza dictum tempore vcr- 

 uali A.D. 1848 a meipso sub lapidibus iuveutus : in Portu Sancto semel tautum legi. 



H. elongate-ovate, black, and somewhat narrowed anteriorly; both sexes almost equally shining. 

 Head rather wide, with the impressions between the eyes more distinct than those of the last 

 species. Prothorax subquadrate, rather wide and short, convex in front, and with its extreme 

 margins often most narrowly and obscurely rufescent ; with an indistinct dorsal channel ; a little 

 rounded at the sides, and less narrowed towards the base than in the H. abbreriatus, where it is 

 distinctly punctured and transversely impressed, but with the foveae exceedingly shallow and 

 obscure ; the hinder angles more obtuse, or at any rate rather more roxmded and less defined 

 than those of the last species. Elytra elongate-subovate, rather less deeply striated than in the 

 last species, the strife not being perceptibly punctate ; and each with a very minutely impressed 

 point, on the third interstice, behind. Antennce and legs nearly the same as those of the H. ab- 

 breviatus; but the latter rather longer, and with the femora more piceous. 



Differs from the preceding species in its larger size, in its rather more anteriorly- 

 narrowed outline, in its proportionably somc^^hat shorter, convexer, and less 

 posteriorly attenuated prothorax (on which, moreover, the central channel and 

 Mnder fovese are exceedingly indistiact), in its more tinely striated elytra, and in 

 its femora being usually of a less decided black. It Avould seem to be a scarce 

 insect in Madeu-a, or at any rate extremely local, the only spot in which I have 

 observed it being the Ioav, rocky, and comparatively flattened ledge immediately 

 above the Praya Formoza, near Funchal, — where however diu'ing the spring of 

 1848 I captiu-ed it, from beneath stones, in tolerable abundance. In Porto Santo 

 I have taken hitherto but a single example. It occurs sparingly thi'oughout 

 central and southern Europe, and is recorded in Switzerland, Prance and Dalmatia. 



39. Harpalus distinguendus. 



H. elongato-oblongus niger, supra aut viridis aut viridi-aeneus, prothorace subquadrato basi leviter 

 attenuato, angulis posticis subrectis et utrinque distincte foveolato, elytris striatis, femoribus 

 plerumque nigrescentibus, tibiis ad basin ferrugineis, ad apicem tarsisque rufo-piccis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 4^5. 



Carahus distinguemlus, Duft. Fna Aust. ii. 76 (1812). 

 Harpalus dUtinguendus, Dej. Spec, des Col. iv. 274 (1829). 



, Ei-ich. Kaf. der Mark'. Brand, i. 48 (1837). 



, Heer, Fna Col. Helv. 106 (1841). 



Habitat ad vias vel sub lapidibus jNIaderie, sat vulgaris : in Portu Sancto praedominat, vineta cam- 

 posque aridos prope oppidum colcns. 



H. elongate-ovate, beneath black, above green, brassy, or brassy-green ; shining, especially the males. 

 Head moderate, with two impressions between the eyes. Prothorax subquadi-ate, and the extreme 



