CARABID^E. DROMIUS. 



difference in the pattern of the elytra, among them one which 

 occurs locally in the Isle of Wight. It has a pale spot on the 

 shoulders, extending not more than half so far downwards as in 

 the insect figured by Dej can, and the transverse band is much 

 broader and darker, leaving merely two minute dots (sometimes 

 united) at the apex. The pattern in these again also varies 

 more or less, as well as in the Cambridgeshire insects. 



This species, the D. bipennifer of the British Collections, is 

 abundant near Whittlesea Mere and in the Cambridgeshire fens, 

 and is found also near Dorking, Carlisle, and in North Wales. 



8. D. fasciatus : subelongatus, testaceus ; capite nigro ; thorace 



quadrato ferrugineo ; elytris substriatis basi pallidis postice 

 fuscis, macula antennis pedibusque pallidis. 



Lebia fasciata, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 4. 459. 



Dromius fasciatus, Dej. Spec. 1. 238 ; Icon. 1. 113. pi. 12. 



Steph. Mand. 1. 24, et Manual, p. 7. Erichson, Kafer, 31. 



Heer, Faun. Helv. 10. 



Rather elongate, depressed. Head black, wide, appearing finely 

 coriaceous under a magnifying glass, having a faint stria on each 

 side in front ; antennae and palpi testaceous, apex of the latter 

 pitchy. Thorax rusty brown, with the margins and hinder 

 angles pale testaceous, quadrate, anterior angles rounded, sides 

 slightly narrowed behind and again slightly produced before the 

 posterior angles, which are a little elevated but obtuse, the base 

 with an impressed fovea on each side. Elytra oblong, rusty 

 brown with a pale testaceous patch covering the shoulders and 

 extending nearly half way downwards, not touching the suture, 

 and also a small round or ovate spot of the same livid colour 

 near the tip ; in some examples the spots are more or less in- 

 distinct or nearly obliterated, in others they run into one another ; 

 body beneath fuscous black ; legs pale testaceous. Length 

 1| line. 



Widely distributed, but local and found chiefly in sandy 

 situations, in damp ditches and hedge-banks. Abundant at 

 Deal, in Cambridgeshire, Devon, at JBerwick-upon-Tweed ; " on 

 the sea-coast at Bamborough, Beadnell and Embleton, in June/' 

 J. Hardy, and in Ireland. 



9. D. melanocephalus : testaceus ; capite nigro, elytris sub- 



striatis, antennis 



Dej. Spec. 1. 234 ; Icon. 1. 109. pi. 11. Sturm, D. F. 7. 44. 

 Steph. Mand. 1. 22, et Manual, p. 7. Erichson, Kafer, 32. 

 Heer, Faun. Hclv. 9. 



In form like the preceding, but shorter and very much smaller. 



