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red. Thorax transverse, short, widest in front, sides rounded, 

 slightly narrowed behind, posterior angles acute, disk rather 

 convex, thickly punctured, with a distinct longitudinal dorsal 

 furrow, and a deeply impressed transverse line at the base, and 

 an obsolete fovea on each side likewise thickly punctured ; 

 scutellum blue-black. Elytra narrowed and rounded at the 

 shoulders, dilated behind, apex obliquely truncate, finely punctate- 

 striated, interstices more or less punctured ; thorax beneath red, 

 breast and abdomen bluish green, legs red, with the tip of the 

 thighs bluish green, tarsi fuscous black. Length 2^-3^ lines. 



This species is variable in size, though usually somewhat 

 larger than the next : it differs chiefly in having the tips of the 

 femora, the breast and scutellum bluish black instead of red. It 

 is local, but has been found at Darenth Wood, Ripley, Windsor, 

 &c. It is the L. nigritarsis of Leach. 



5. Ii. chlorocephala : cyanea vel viridis ; thorace pedibusque 

 rufis ; elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis subtiliter punc- 

 tatis. 



Carabus chlorocephalus, Ent. Heft 2. 117. 



Lebia chlorocephala, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 180. Dej, Spec. 1. 



257 ; Icon. 1. 136. pi. 14. Sturm, D. F. 7. 22. Erichson, 



Kafer, 34. Heer, Faun. Helv. 12. 



Lamprias chlorocephalus , Steph. Mand. 1. 30, et Manual, p. 9. 

 L. rufipes, Steph. Mand. 1. 30, et Manual, p. 9. 



Brilliant shining green or cyaneous, with the thorax red. 

 Head thickly punctured; palpi black; antennae fuscous black, 

 with the first, second, and basal half of the third joints red. 

 Thorax rather longer, and more narrowed behind than in the 

 preceding species, posterior angles prominent, convex, thickly 

 punctured, with a slight dorsal line, and a transverse impression 

 at the base ; scutellum red. Elytra more finely punctured than 

 in the preceding species ; thorax and breast beneath testaceous 

 red ; abdomen bluish green ; legs red, with the tarsi fuscous 

 black. Length 2^-3 lines. 



Abundant in many parts of the kingdom on the common 

 broom, and at the roots of the gorse. L. rufipes, Steph., is the 

 same species. 



Genus 6. BRACHINUS, Weber. 



Mentum (plerumque] dente medio nullo. Ligula medio anguste 

 cornea, lateribus membranacea ; paraglossis apice subacumi- 

 natis, earn parum superantibus. Palpi articulo ultimo cylin- 



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