4 CARABID^E. DRYPTA. 



as large as the thorax, finely granulated and striated ; upper lip 

 with a small tooth, and together with the mandibles externally 

 white ; antennae with four basal joints coppery. Thorax long, 

 narrow and cylindric, finely granulated ; scutellurn rather small. 

 Elytra oblong, rather narrowed in front, widest behind the 

 middle, with a small white spot on the humeral angle, an oblong 

 one near the margin about the middle, and a minute one at the 

 apex ; underside brilliant purplish green, sides of the thorax 

 and breast coppery ; legs greenish, with the tibiae testaceous. 

 Length 5 lines. 



Local ; but found in profusion near Charmouth and Swanwich, 

 Dorset ; Black Gang Chine, Isle of Wight, &c. Unlike its con- 

 geners, it does not make use of its wings to effect its escape, but 

 runs with amazing rapidity. 



Fam. 2. CARABIB^. 



Mandibulse firmse, non aut leviter dentatse ; maxillae apice arcuatse, 

 ungue fixo terminatse; palpi labiales articulis tribus, stipite 

 raro libero; ligula porrecta, cornea, paraglossis aucta. Ca- 

 rabici, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. 1. 177. 



Subfam. 1. BRACHINIDES, Westwood. 



Genus 1. DRYPTA, Fabricius. 



Mentum maximum corneum. Ligula elongata, setis tribus longis 

 ornala ; paraglossis brevibus, acutis, apice liberis. Palpi ar- 

 ticulis ultimis incrassatis, subsecuriformibus. Mandibulse 

 porrectffi, elongates, uncinatte. Labrum breve, transversum, 

 apice bisinuatum. Tarsi antici maris articulo primo leviter 

 dilatato, ultimo bifido. 



1. D. emarginata : viridi-cterulea, ore antennis pedibusque rufis. 



Fab. S. El. 1. 230. Dej. Spec. 1. 183 ; Icon. 1. 66. pi. 7. 

 Steph. Hand. 1. 13, et Manual, p. 6. Curtis, Ent. pi. 454. 

 Heer, Faun. Helv. 6. 



This elegant species is bright green or blue-green above and 

 beneath. Head thickly punctured ; eyes black and prominent ; 

 mandibles, palpi and antennae red, the apex of the first joint of 

 the latter, and a ring round the second and third black. Thorax 

 elongate, rather narrowed behind, somewhat cylindric, with a 

 central longitudinal line, and thickly punctured. Elytra wide, 

 the shoulders rounded, dilated behind the middle, slightly notched 

 at the apex, distinctly punctate-striated, interstices punctured, 

 villose ; legs red, tarsi sometimes pitchy. Length 4 lines. 



