78 COLEOPTERA. 



4. Harp ALUS quadripunctatus, Dejean, Spec. gen. des 



Cols. &c., iv (1829), p. 326; id. Iconogr. &c., iv. 



(1834), p. 18o, pi. 191, fig. 6; Heer, Fauna Col. 



Helv., p. 108; Fairmaire et Lab., Faune Eat. Fran^., 



Col., i, p. 136; Redtenbacher, Fauna Austr., edn. 2, 



p. 59; Schaum, Naturg. d. Ins. Deutschl., i, p. 595; 



Rev. J. Blackburn, Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 68; E. C. 



Rye, ibid.\ G. C. Champion, ibid., p. 158. 



seriepiLiictatus, Gyllenhal, Ins. Suec, iv (1827), p. 



434; Thomson, Scand. Col., i, p. 280; nee Sturm, 



Deutschl. Ins., iv (1818), p. 63. 



Icevipes, Zetterstedt, Faun. Ins. Lapp. (1828), p. 26 



\_teste Thomson]; id. Ins. Lapp. (1838), p. 38. 



Two or three examples of this interesting addition to our 



list were found by Mr. Blackburn under stones near the edge 



of a small loch high up on a mountain at some distance from 



Braemar, in the early part of the past summer; and Mr. 



Champion, some little time after, also found it near Braemar, 



crawling about the roads (but, unfortunately, mistook it for 



latus, and so neglected the opportunity of laying in a supply). 



I believe Mr. J. S. Allin also took an individual of it, under 



similar circumstances, at the same time and place. 



The insect is very like the common H. latus {fulvipes, 

 olim), but is rather longer, and of more parallel form. Its 

 thorax is proportionally shorter, without the testaceous edge, 

 and it has considerably deeper fove^ at the base, which is 

 more obsoletely punctured. The striae of the elytra are ap- 

 parently somewhat deeper, and on the apical half of the third 

 interstice of each elytron are 2 or 3 large punctures. The 

 number is not always constant ; one of Mr. Blackburn's 

 specimens having 2 of these large punctures on one wing- 

 case and 4 on the other. 



