14 CARABIDJE. DROMIUS. 



body beneath black ; antennae and legs black or slightly pitchy. 

 Length 1^ line. 



This insect is larger than the preceding and much broader, but 

 not quite so large as the next species ; it cannot be confounded 

 with either, it is more pitchy black, and has the sides of the 

 elytra very distinctly rounded, and is both shorter and wider than 

 either of the allied species : from foveolus (with which it associates 

 as well as with glabratus) it may instantly be distinguished also 

 by the absence of the small punctures, and the brassy brown colour 

 so conspicuous in that insect. 



This species has, together with the two following, been erected 

 into a separate genus (Metabletus] by Dr. Schmidt. 



It is far from uncommon, though certainly local. I have 

 taken it at Redhill, Surrey, on the common near the Railway 

 Station ; and in Pegwell Bay near Ramsgate, on a grassy bank 

 on the edge of the shore, early in the spring. " Found in 

 sandy and gravelly situations beneath stones near London," 

 Mr. Stephens. It is also included among the Irish species by 

 Mr. Haliday. 



12. D. foveolus : obscure ceneus ; elytris substriatis } punctis 

 duobus impressis. 



Lebia foveola, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 183. 



Dromius foveolus, Steph. Mand. 1. 26, et Manual, p. 8. 



Erichson, Kafer, 33. 

 Lebia punctatella, Dufts. Faun. 2. 248. 

 Dromius punctatellus, Dej. Spec. 1. 247; Icon. 1. 126.pl. 13. 



Sturm, D. F. 7. 52. Heer, Faun. Helv. 11. 



Above obscure brassy brown. Head smooth, with an obsolete 

 fovea on each side between the antenna? which are pitchy black, 

 eyes large. Thorax short, broad, narrowed behind as in the 

 preceding species, and the posterior angles obtuse and elevated, 

 but with the base sloped upwards to meet them, the dorsal line 

 very distinct, but the basal fovese almost obsolete. Elytra rounded 

 at the shoulders, and rather so on the sides, moderately convex, 

 obsoletely punctate-striated, with two deep impressions on the third 

 stria ; legs black, slightly pitchy. Length 1^ line. 



This insect occurs in profusion almost everywhere in sandy 

 and gravelly places. " Portmarnock sands " in Ireland, A. H. 

 Haliday, Esq. 



_\ 13. D. obscuroguttatus : piceo-subseneus ; elytris substriatis, 

 maculis duabus alterd humerali alterd apicali antennarum 

 basi tibiisque rufescentibus. 



Lebia obscuro-guttata, Dufts. Faun. 2. 249. 



