134 * ADEPiiAGA. [Masoreus. 



JUt. Wetterhalli, Gyll. (luxahis, Dej.). Pitchy red, shining, 

 margins of thorax (occasionally) and base of elytra ferruginous ; head 

 much narrower than thorax, antennae and palpi red ; thorax short and 

 broad with sides completely rounded from apex to base, posterior angles 

 very blunt, almost rounded, dorsal farrow line, anterior and posterior 

 margins about equal in breadth ; elytra ovate with fine and finely punc- 

 tured strise, interstices smooth ; legs red. L. 5 mm. 



Very local and usually rare, but it is by no means uncommon at Deal and on the 

 Chesil Bank, Portland, in which latter locality Mr. J. J. Walker has taken it in some 

 numbers this summer (1885j ; Sheeruess ; Southend; Weymouth; St. Osyth, Esses ; 

 Hunstanton, Norfolk, where I have taken it very rarely on the sand-hills. I know of 

 no locality further north. 



CYMINDINA. 



The species that form this tribe (Avhich contains only two or three 

 genera besides Cymindi'<) are distinguished from those of the neigh- 

 bouring tribes by the truncate apical joint of the labial palpi, which in 

 the males of many species are dilated and securiform ; the occurrence of 

 numerous species with the middle as well as the anterior tarsi of the 

 male dilated and furnished beneath with squamae, shows clearly that 

 Cymindia and its allies form a sub-type quite distinct from the Lebiina, 

 with which Lacordaire and Schaum combined them. (See Bates, Biol. 

 Cent. Am. Carabidse., p. 186.) 



CVnZZNBZS, Latreille. {Tarus, Clairv.) 



This genus comprises, according to the Munich Catalogiie, a hundred 

 and twenty species, but their number is probably exaggerated, as many 

 of them are subject to variation (M. Bedel, for instance, says (1. c. p. 118) 

 that C. axillaris has received twenty different names, and that in all the 

 Europeo-Mediterranean region not more than thirty species are really 

 known, although their number has been generally reckoned at about 

 fifty) ; they chiefly occur in Europe, Northern Asia, and North America, 

 biit a few species are found in the southern hemisphere : we only possess 

 two species, which may be distinguished as follows : — 



1. Upper surface shining ; elytra black with humeral patch 



and margins yellow C. AXILLARIS, F. 



2. Upper surface dullj elytra dark brown, red brown at 



base C. taporaeioeum, L. 



C. axillaris, F. {homagrica, Duft., anriul<iri$, Steph.). Head large, 

 black, shining ; antennje and palpi ferruginous ; thorax dark ferruginous 

 with the rather broadly raised margins lighter, about as long as broad, 

 wide in front and rounded and narrowed behind, posterior angles very 

 minutely projecting, rugose and punctured, especially on the sides, dorsal 

 furrow fine, basal foveas distinct; elytra depressed, deeply striated, 

 interstices with an irregular row of punctures in each, third stria with 

 three or four large pores, black, shining, not pubescent, with margin and 

 a narrow oblong spot at shoulders yellow; legs red. L. 8-10 mm. 



