CARABID.E. TARUS. 23 



reddish, punctured ; abdomen black, smooth and shining ; legs 

 ferruginous. Length 3| 4 lines. 



The insects recorded by Mr. Stephens under the names 

 T. axillaris, coadnutus, lavigatus, homagricus, angularis and ma- 

 culariSy if they have no other representatives but those contained 

 in the Stephensian cabinet, must all be assigned to this species. 



Found in chalky districts, but local. Dorking, at the foot of 

 Box hill ; Freshwater, Isle of Wight ; at the back of the Castle 

 in the Isle of Portland ; New Forest, &c., late in August and 

 September, and occasionally in April and May. 



3. T. vaporariorum : niger, subpubescens profunde punctatus ; 

 elytris punctato-striatis basi ferrugineis y ore antennis 

 pedibusque testaceis. 



Carabus vaporariorum, Linn. S. N. 2. 671. 



Cymindis basalis, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 175. Sturm, D. F. 7. 15. 



Redt. Faun. Aust. 74. 

 Tarus basalis, Curtis, Ent. pi. 235. Steph. Mand. 1. 177, et 



Manual, p. 10. 

 Cymindis punctata, Dej. Spec. 1. 214 ; Icon. 1. 92. pi. 10. 



Heer, Faun. Helv. 8. 



Head and thorax black, coarsely punctured, palpi and antennae 

 ferruginous. Thorax heart-shaped, rather narrow, sides rounded 

 in front, contracted behind, posterior angles acute and prominent, 

 each with a very obsolete fovea. Elytra oblong-ovate, slightly 

 pubescent, punctate-striated, pitchy black or pitchy chestnut, 

 with a more or less distinct red dash on the shoulders and 

 covering the entire base ; body beneath pitchy black, deeply 

 punctured; legs red. Length 4-4^ lines. 



This insect cannot be confounded with the preceding. The 

 form is narrower and more elongate ; the punctuation, especially 

 on the head and thorax, is very coarse; the thorax is considerably 

 smaller, more contracted, and has the posterior angles distinctly 

 acute and prominent; the elytra also are narrower, the shoulders 

 rounded and narrowed, not at all prominent like those of the 

 preceding species, and the entire base is red, but the lateral 

 margins concolorous with the rest of the wing-cases, and the 

 underside is thickly punctured and pubescent. 



In the Linnsean collection we find this species labelled as the 

 true Carabus vaporariorum, Linn. I have accordingly restored 

 the name. It is found in mountainous districts in the north of 

 England, Scotland, and North Wales. Midgley Moor, near 

 Halifax : " on the moors near Twizel," Mr. Selby. I have taken 

 it abundantly on Griben Oernant, near Llangollen, about the 

 middle of August. 



