CARABID^E. LEBIA. 17 



1. L. crux minor : nigra ; thorace antennarum basi pedibusque 



rufis j elytris testaceis cruce nigrd. 



Carabus crux minor, Linn. S. N. 2. 673. 



Lebia crux minor, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 181. Sturm, D. F. 7. 24. 



Dej. Spec. 1. 261 ; Icon. 1. 139. pi. 15. Steph. Mand. 1. 



27, et Manual, p. 8. Heer, Faun. Helv. 13. 



Head black, coarsely punctured; palpi black; antennae fuscous, 

 with three joints at the base red. Thorax ferruginous red, 

 finely punctured, with a slight central longitudinal line and 

 wrinkled transversely; scutellum black. Elytra broad, shoulders 

 rounded and prominent, sides widest behind the middle, finely 

 punctate-striated, with two minute dots on the third stria from 

 the suture, testaceous red, with a triangular black patch surround- 

 ing the scutellum, the black colour passing all down the suture 

 to the apex, and being crossed behind the middle by a broad 

 transverse waved band of the same colour dilated at the sides 

 and next the suture, leaving a round immaculate spot at the apex : 

 underside of the body black, except the thorax, which, together 

 with the Iegs 5 is red. Length 3 lines. 



The instances recorded of the capture of this rare species in 

 Britain are very few. Coombe Wood, Windsor, Plumstead 

 Common, Bristol, Lymington, and Netley have produced each a 

 solitary example. More recently, Mr, Stephens secured one in 

 Unsted Wood, near Godalming (Aug. 27, 1842), and Mr. Wol- 

 laston brushed one into his net from a damp meadow at Trene- 

 glos, in Cornwall, on llth September, 1844. Two specimens 

 were taken in a sandy lane near Tunbridge Wells by Major 

 Stanhope Taylor, one of which he kindly presented to me. 

 " Beaten off a sallow near Lugs, south end of Loch Lomond, by 

 Mr. R. Logan." Murray's Catalogue. 



2. L. turcica : nigra, thorace rufo ; elytris striatis, nigris, 



macula magnd humerali pedibusque testaceis. 



Carabus turcicus, Fab. S. El. 1. 203. 



Lebia turcica, Dej. Spec. 1. 263 ; Icon. 1. 142. pi. 15. Curtis, 



Ent. pi. 87. Steph. Mand. 1 . 27, et Manual, p. 8. Heer, 



Faun. Helv. 13. 



Rather smaller than crux minor. Head black, punctured 

 behind, and wrinkled in front between the eyes ; mouth, palpi 

 and antennse red. Thorax red, with a deep central longitudinal 

 line, bordered by numerous transverse wrinkles ; scutellum 

 red. Elytra black, with a large testaceous red patch on the 

 shoulders, and a very slender margin of the same colour extend- 

 ing to the apex, deeply striated, the striae sparingly punctured, 



