24 ADEPHAGA. [DijscMrius. 



at the humeral angle ; legs dark red, pitchy, or black ; anterior tibias 

 furnished with two external teeth, the one near apex strong, the other 

 almost obsolete. L. 2| mm. 



Sandy banks of ponds and ditches, maritime and inland. Burton-on-Trent ; 

 Bcwdlcy ; Cannock Chase ; Plnmstead Marshes ; Sheppy ; Gravesend ; Darenth Wood ; 

 Wcybridge; Reigate ; Whittlesea Mere; Hastings; Glanvilles VVootton ; Luccombe 

 Chine, Isle of Wight; Northumberland. Scotland, Tain, Eosshire (Bold). Ireland 

 (rare). 



This is a variable species both as regards form and colour : the Isle of Wight ex- 

 amples are more slender than the type in many cases ; a specimen I took at Luccombe 

 in April, 1885, not only is narrower, but has the sides of the thorax less rounded. 



D. grlobosus, Herbst. Black or pitchy, sometimes bronze ; antennae 

 pitchy, base reddish ; thorax very convex, globose, with fine central 

 furrow ; elytra ovate, with shoulders rounded, very convex, with strong 

 and very coarsely punctured strise which disappear before apex and at 

 sides, with the exception of the sutural and marginal strise ; legs red or 

 pitchy, femora often darker ; anterior tibiae with two minute external 

 teeth. L. 2 mm. 



Sandy banks of ponds, &c., inland and maritime ; widely distributed in England, 

 and occurring in great profusion. Scotland, common, Lowlands. Ireland near 

 Belfast and DubliUj and probably common throughout the country. 



HARPALIN^. 



The tribes that make up the Harpaline series (HarjxiUnce trihiis) in- 

 clude the whole of the remainder of the Carabidse ; they are distingTiished 

 by the fact that the mesothoracic epimera do not reach the middle coxal 

 cavities, which are entirely closed by the sterna. Various methods of 

 classification have been adopted for the series ; none, however, can bo 

 quite satisfactory, for a linear classification is impossible, many of the 

 tribes and genera running parallel to one another and presenting equal 

 affinities in different directions ; the system below adopted, hoAvever, 

 appears to be for many reasons open to fewer objections than some of 

 the others ; it is based upon the old distinction of the formation 

 of the anterior tarsi of the male ; this is indeed open to some 

 objections, notably that it excludes the determination of the position of 

 the female apart from the male, but it is more satisfactory and holds 

 together genera with evidently natural affinities better than less evident 

 and more artificial characters that have been adopted by some writers, 

 which are very useful in subdivision, but if used as primary characters, 

 separate genera widely that ought evidently to be placed close together. 

 One of the chief alterations that have been made of late years is the 

 removal of the Bembidiina from the end of the family of Carabidse ; 

 owing to the small subulate last joint of the palpi occurring in the 

 Haliplidae and some of the Dytiscidse, as well as in the Bembidiina, 

 coupled with the subaquatic habits of the latter, they Avere considered as 

 a connecting link between the Geodephaga and Hydradephaga ; it is, 

 however, generally acknowledged that for several reasons the Bembidiina 

 are more fitly placed higher in the series, although, if we recognize the 



