24 CARABID^E. POLYSTICHUS. 



Genus 8. POLYSTICHUS, Bonelli. 



Men turn breve, dente medio abbreviate, dilatato, emarginato. 

 Ligula membranacea apice obtusa, paraglossis membranaceis, 

 ei adnatis. Palpi articulo ultimo paulb crassiore, subsecuri- 

 formi. Mandibulse breviusculce vix prominulce. Labrum 



quadratum, apice truncatum. 







1. P. fasciolatus : brunneus,pubescens, valdepunctatus, elytrorum 

 vittd abbreviatd pectore abdomine pedibusque ferrugineis. 



Carabus fasciolatus, Oliv. Ent. 3. 33. 



Galerita fasciolata, Fab. S. El. 1. 216. 



Polystichus fasciolatus, Sturm, D. F. 7. 69. Dej. Spec. 1. 194; 



Icon. 1.72. pi. 7. Steph.Mand. 1. 13. Curtis, Ent.pl. 23. 



Heer, Faun. Helv. 6. 

 P. vittatus, Steph. Manual, p. 10. 



Pitchy red, pubescent. Head much produced in front, and 

 coarsely punctured; palpi and antennae rusty red. Thorax 

 elongate, heart-shaped, sides rounded in front, much narrowed 

 behind, posterior angles acute, coarsely punctured, with an 

 oblong fovea on each side at the base. Elytra very pubescent, 

 with a red streak extending from the base to about the middle 

 of each elytron, shoulders rounded, sides parallel, apex truncate, 

 deeply striated, the stria? and interstices thickly and finely 

 punctured : head and thorax beneath pitchy red, coarsely 

 punctured ; abdomen pale, very minutely punctured ; legs rusty 

 red. Length 5 lines. 



Very rare. " Once in profusion under a heap of stones, near 

 Southwold, Suffolk, in April 1828." C. J. Hewitson, Esq. I 

 captured a single specimen near Sandown, in the Isle of Wight, 

 in April 1846. 



Subfam. 2. SCARITIDES, Westwood. 

 Genus 9. CLIVINA, Latreille. 



Mentum dente medio acuto, lobis lateralibus cequali. Ligula 

 cornea, elongata, acuminata : paraglossis membranaceis, an- 

 gustis, linearibus, lignite cequalibus. Palpi articulo ultimo 

 acuminato. Mandibulse mediocres, subdentat<K. Labrum 

 breve, truncatum. Tibise antica? extus dentatce, intermedia? 

 extus ante apicem spind armatce. 



1 . C. fossor : nigro-picea, thorace subquadrato, elytris elongatis, 

 subparallelis, striato-punctatis, punctis quatuor impressis ; 

 (tntcnnis pedibusque rufa. 



