The Beetles of the Moorlands 



most of the beetles we have discovered as we came up ; 

 but also, if we have not yet seen it, we ought to find 

 one of the larger Geodephagous beetles of the genus 

 Carabus. One, it may be remembered, we found in 

 a wood under a fallen log that was a C. violaceus 

 (Plate A, Fig. 3). This species is very much like 

 it, not quite so large (20 to 24 mm. instead of 

 24 to 28), and not quite so long an oval in shape. It 

 is called Carabus catenulatus (the Carabus of the little 

 chains, the allusion being to a somewhat fanciful view 

 of the elytral sculpture) Fig. 3, Plate B. It is of a 

 dark indigo-blue colour, with the sides of the thorax 

 and the shoulders and edges of the elytra violet, not 

 shining coppery-purple, as in the not perhaps very 

 accurately named violaceus ; the elytra are covered 

 with somewhat raised broken lines, interrupted by 

 shallow punctures, which possibly suggest a chain- 

 like pattern, so that the whole surface is very rough, 

 the legs and antennae quite black. It is a sluggish 

 beetle, as are most of the Carabi, and will simply lie 

 motionless when its covering stone is removed. 



Then there is another weevil which we might notice 

 walking across some bare spot or some under stone that 

 rests quite lightly on the heather ; that is, Barynotus 

 schonherri (after Schonherr, a great Swedish entomo- 

 logist) Fig. 17, Plate V. Barynotus is a genus of the Rhyn- 

 chophora, which comes not very far from Strophosomus ; 

 it has the same broad short rostrum and convex oval 

 body. The species, however, of which we have three, 

 are all much larger than any Strophosomus, this 



