Ajiisudactylw^.'] adephaga. 57 



(Sliarp); Woking (Power) ; Chobham (Sauuders anil Champion) ; Reiprate ; Wimbledon. 

 Stephens gives as localities "near Loudon, Windsor, and iu Glamorganshire." 



A. poeciloides, Steph. (sub-gen. Z)R7rm/s, Mann.). Colour variable, 

 brassy green or coppery, sometimes brilliant green, occasionally with a 

 bluish or reddish tinge ; antennse pitchy, basal .joint red underneath ; 

 head with a red spot (often obsolete) between eyes ; thorax with 

 sides rounded, widest in middle, posterior angles rounded, ba.se with a 

 large punctured fovea on each side ; elytra deeply striated, sinuate at 

 aj)ex, interstices convex, legs black, claws red. L. 9-11 mm. 



Local, salt marshess, under stones, &c. Deal, Dover, Sheorncss, Gravesond, Shoppy; 

 Lymington Salterns and Christehureh ; Lsle of Wight ; Weymouth ; Walton-on-Naze : 

 apparently not found in the north, or in Scotland. 



DIACHROMUS, Erichson. 



One species only belongs to this genus, which is common over the whole 



of central and the greater part of southern Europe, but is doubtfully 

 indigenous as British. 



D. g'ermanus, Er. Head testaceous red very finely punctured, 

 antenuje red ; thorax bluish or greenish with testaceous margins, with 

 sides dihited and rounded behind anterior angles, contracted behind, 

 posterior angles somewhat acute, the entire surface very closely punctured ; 

 elytra ovate, testaceous red, with a bluish or greenish patch at apex, 

 finely striated, interstices thickly and finely punctured ; underside shining 

 black except of head, which is testaceous ; legs reddish testaceous. L. 

 7|-8i mm. 



Very rare ; a few specimens have been taken running on the pathways at St. 

 Leonards, Deal, Hastings, kc, by Mr. F. Sniitli, Mi-. S. Stevens, Mr. E. Saunders, 

 nnd others. Dr. Leach recorded it from Kingsbridge in Devonshire : in its usual 

 localities it appears to be fouud under stones or ou the stems of grasses, kc, in 

 marshy places. 



Sub-Div. iv. Tripalmati. 



The members of this division are distinguished by the fact that the 

 males have the first three joints of the anterior tarsi dilated (cordiforiu 

 or emarginate), and clothed underneath with .squamie. 



The tribes may be distinguished as follows : — 



r Head with one supra-orbital sctigcrous puncture Zabuina. 



II. Head with two .supra-orbital sctij^crous punctures. 



i. Epiplcura; of elytra with the edges interrupted at the level 

 of the last abdominal si-gment. 



1. Terminal joint of the labial \vA\A as long as, or longer 



than the penultimate, the latter bisetose in front . . . PrKEOSTIcniNA. 



2. Terminal joint of the labial palpi shorter than the peiiul- 



tiniate, the latter plurisetose in front Am.mjiva. 



ii. Epipieurae of elytra continuous to apex, edges not iutcrrupteJ A>cuoiii:.MNA. 



