Harpalus.'\ adephaga. 51 



posterior angles right angles, base Avith a rather broad rugose depression 

 un each side, the base and depressions being thickly punctured ; elytra 

 with impunctate striae, very slightly sinuate at apex; legs red. L. 9-10 

 mm. 



Very rare; sandy districts, at the roots of lieath and under stones; Chobham 

 (Ciiampion) ; Gravesend ; Brandon, Suffolk (.1. J. Walker) ; Gotnsh;ill ; Woburn, 

 Ucds; recorded by Dawson from Sandy, Bedfordshire, and Isle of Wight. 



K. cupreus, Dej. Oblong, rather broad, considerably larger than the 

 preceding ; colour metallic green, more or less bronzed, sometimes cop- 

 })ery, not very shining ; antennae pitchy with basal joint and sometimes 

 part of more or less of the other joints light red ; thorax subquadrate, 

 slightly narrowed in front, scarcely contracted behind, posterior angles 

 blunt, Avith two depressions at base, which with the base itself are 

 thickly punctured ; elytra deeply striated, with the usually short sutural 

 striae longer than in any other of our species, apex with hardly a trace 

 of sinuation ; legs pitchy black, claws red. L. 12-13 mm. 



Very rare ; Rydc, Cowe?, and Saudown in the Isle of Wight. Mr. Horner took it 

 not long ago at the latter place. Stephens gives the banks of the Thames below 

 Gravesend as a locality, but this may have been in error. 



I have a specimen of this insect from Greece (sent by Eeitter) which 

 is larger and more convex than our British specimens, and has the legs 

 and antennae clear red. 



K. caspius, Stev. (dej/ressus, Duft., dimidiatus, Rossi). Oblong 

 ovate, shining black with the base of the thorax (and sometimes its 

 entire surface) greenish blue or violaceous, antennae fuscous, base light 

 red ; thorax subquadrate, rather convex, sides slightly rounded in front 

 and behind, posterior angles very blunt, almost rounded oil", base with 

 two shallow depressions, which with the base itself are thickly and some- 

 what rugosidy punctured ; elytra at base hardly as broad as base of 

 thorax, with strong impunctate strijB (occasionally feebly punctured in 

 female), slightly sinuate at apex ; hfth and seventh interstices with 

 several pores at apex ; legs black, claws red. L. 12-13 mm. 



Local, but not uucomniou in the south; on chalky hill-sides and in salt marshes, 

 under stones, &c. VV'hitstable, Gravesend, Shoerness, Dover, Reigate, Box Hill ; 

 Isle of Wight, Ventnor, Bonchurch, &•. ; l^ourneinouth ; Weymouth; Portland. 

 Apparently confined to the southern and south-tastern districts of Englatul. 



K. latus, L. Oblong, shining black, with the extreme margins of 

 the thorax reddish testaceous ; antennae and palpi red ; thorax almost 

 (juadratc, slightly narrowed in front, not narrowed behind, posterior angles 

 blunt right angles, with two shallow depressions at base, which with the 

 base are closely and somewhat rugnsely punctured ; elytra strongly 

 striated with scarcely a trace of suiuatioa at apex ; legs rod. L. 8-9 

 mm. 



Generally distributed and common throughout England ; Scotland, common Low. 

 lands; Irclaud, common near Dubliu, and probably generally distributed. Mr. Lewis 



