Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Coleoptera of St. Helena. 303 



Fam. 1. Carabidae, 

 Genus 1. Haplothorax. 



Waterhousc, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii. 207 [script. Aplo- 

 thorax] (1841). 



1. Haplothorax Burchellii. 

 Aplothorax Burchellii, Waterh., he. cit. pi, 12. f. 1 (1841). 

 A truly indigenous and noble Carabid, whicli appears, how- 

 ever, to be botli local and extremely scarce. Although re- 

 ceived many years ago from St. Helena, where it was first 

 detected by the African traveller Dr. Burchell, the only ex- 

 amples of It which I have myself seen have been captured by 

 Mr. Melliss. '' 



Genus 2. Calosoma. 

 Weber, Obs. Ent. 20 (1801). 



2. Calosoma haligena. 



C. siipra aut obscure aneum aut fere (vel etiam omnino) nigrum 

 subopacum; capitc irregulariter punctato ; prothorace parvo, 

 transverso-subcordato, antice ad latcra valde rotundato, an-uUs 

 posticis retrorsum productis sed obtusis, densissime ruguloso- 

 punctato, utnnque intra angulos posticos late et profuude im- 

 presso; elytns grosse crenato-striatis, interstitiis jequaUter ele- 

 vatis ac trausversim imbricato-rugatis, punctis magnis plus minus 

 aenescentibus vel cuprescentibus in triplici serie notatis ; antennis 

 pedibusque nigris aut piceo-nigris. 

 Mas, plerumque vix minor, pedibus sensim crassioribus, tibiis poste- 

 rionbus (prajsertim intermediis) conspicue curvatis, tarsis anticis 

 valde dilatatis. 



F(£m., plerumquo vix major, pedibus sensim graciHoxibus, tibiis in- 

 termodus vix cur\-atis, posticis fere rectis, tarsis anticis sim- 

 plicibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 9-11. 



Calosoma haligena, "Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 208 (18G1). 

 Of this fine Calosoma a single example was captured at St 

 Helena (in July 1860) by the late Mr. Bewicke, and several 

 more have since been communicated by Mr. Melliss. It seems 

 to belong to the same type as the African species sene- 

 galense and rugosum, from the former of whicli it is never- 

 theless abundantly distinct. From the latter it differs {inter 

 alia) m being more depressed, and in havinir its coppery 

 punctm-es smaller, in its prothorax being more \leeply ru-ose 

 before and behind, and in its legs being less robust. A? re- 

 gards colour, it appears to be cither dull brassy or nearly (if 

 not indeed altogether) black ; and its males have their four 



