44 ADBPHAGA. . \_Harpalus. 



2. Thorax strongly transverse. 



A. Thorax shorter, with central furrow and 



basal fovese distinct. L. 6-7 mm. . . . H. EUFIBARBIS, F. 



B. Thorax longer, with central furrow and 



basal foveas indistinct. L. 5| ram. . . . H. paralleltts, Dej, 



K. sabulicola, Panz. Oblong, somewhat pubescent; head and 

 thorax pitcli black, strongly punctured, antennae and palpi red ; thorax 

 broader than long, rounded in front, obliquely contracted from middle 

 to base, with blunt but distinct posterior angles, strongly punctured, 

 punctuation at . base thicker and closer, with very fine central furrow ; 

 elytra blue, often with greenish reflection, broader than thorax, some- 

 what parallel-sided, not emarginate before apex, plainly striated, inter- 

 stices thickly punctured ; legs red. L. 12-13 mm. 



Chalky and sandy places, near the coast, under stones, &c. ; not comiuou ; occasion- 

 ally found further inland. Box Hill ; Folkestone ; Deal ; Brighton ; Gravesend ; Dover ; 

 Southend ; Dorking ; Portland. Said by Dawson to be found abundantly under stones 

 and clods of earth near Basingstoke, &c. ; apparently confined to the south-east of 

 England. 



XX. obscurus, F. (= H. stidus, Steph., nee ohscurus, Daws. = ? 

 ino)ificola, Dej.). (Fig. Steph. Illust. viii. f. 6.) 



This species appears to be intermediate between the preceding and the 

 common H. rotimdicoUis, Fairm. ; it is about the size of H. sahulicola, 

 if anything rather larger ; the posterior angles of thorax are more 

 rounded than in the latter insect, bnt more visible than in H. rotundi- 

 collis ; the apex of the elytra is deeply excised, and by this and its 

 usually darker colour it may be distinguished from either of these two 

 species. L. 13 mm. 



Very rare : Stephens mentions Hackney Marshes as a locality ; several specimens 

 vi&ce taken manj' years ago by Ur. Power and Professor Babingtoa at Swatfham in 

 Cambridgeshire, and some of these they distributed as H. sahulicola; they probably 

 still exist in old collections under this name. Mr. Matthews has a specimen from 

 Weston, Oxfordshire; the species has not occurred for a very long time in England. 

 Scotland, very rare Solway district, " Raehills, Rev. W. Little," Murray, Scot. Nat. 

 viii. 278. 



K. rotundicollis, Fairm. (ohscurus, Daws., diffinis, Dej.). Very 

 like H. sahidicola, but smaller, Avith the sides of the thorax completely 

 rounded, posterior angles rounded, not visible ; the head and thorax are 

 less closely punctured and the central furroAV of the latter is more distinct ; 

 the elytra are dark violet blue, and not, as a rule, greenish, as in the 

 above species, and are very slightly sinuate or emarginate at apex. L. 

 10-11 mm. 



This species can hardly be separated from H. diffinis, Dej., which only 

 differs in having the sides of the thorax less rounded, and the elytra less 

 sinuate at apex ; the sinuation, however, of H. rotundicoUis is so slight 

 that in some specimens it is hardly perceptible. 



Kather common but local in salt marshes, and in chalky fields, on the sides of 

 cliffs, &c., both near the coast and further inland ; very common in the Isle of Wight, 

 and on the south coast generally; common in Kent and Surrey. I have never found 



