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CARABID.E. DYSCHIRIUS. 



ultimo acuminato. Mandibulse mediocres, muticce. Tibiae 

 anticae extus bidenticulata, apice products, intermedise sim- 

 plices. 



1. D. inerxnis: nigro-carulescens vel aneo-piceus, nitidus, ore 

 antennisque ferruyineis, elytris oblongo-ovatis, striato- 

 punctatis, punctis tribus impressis, tibiis anticis extus 

 inermibus. 



Curtis, Ent. pi. 354. Steph. Mand. 5. 369, et Manual, p. 11. 



Putz. Mon. 53. 



Dyschirius arenosus, Putz. Mon. 48. 



D. digitatus, Steph. Mand. 1. 42, et Manual, p. 12. 



D. fulvipes, Steph. Mand. 5. 3/0, et Manual, p. 12. 



Bluish black or pitchy aeneous, shining ; palpi and antennae at 

 the base ferruginous, the latter dusky towards the apex. Thorax 

 subrotundate and rather globose in front, but narrowed behind, 

 the dorsal furrow deeply impressed, and met in front by a curved 

 transverse channel, the base with a transverse row of punctures. 

 Elytra oblong-ovate, slightly rounded at the sides (PL I. f. 9), 

 strongly striated, the striae finely punctured, the third from the 

 suture with three deeper impressions ; legs pitchy red, femora 

 darker, anterior tibiae terminated by two strong spines, the outer 

 one largest and incurved, but without any appearance of the 

 usual denticulations on the tibia externally. Length 2^ lines. 



This species is described in Putzeys' Monographie as D. iner- 

 mis, Curt. ; it is also identical with D. arenosus, Putz., of the 

 same work, but not, as that author was led to believe, with 

 arenosus , Steph. The latter insect must be assigned to thoracicus. 

 D. digitatus and fulvipes belong to the present species. Clivina 

 fulvipes, Dej., is unique in the Dejeanian collection. The localities 

 given for this insect are the coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. 



2. D. nitidus : <eneus, nitidus ; thorace subrotundato, elytris 

 elongato-ovatis, punctato-striatis, stria marginali ad hu- 

 merum abbreviatd, tibiis anticis extus obtuse bidenticulatis. 



Clivina nitida, Dej. Spec. 1. 421 ; Icon. 1. 218. pi. 123. 



Ahrens, Archiv, no. 1. 

 Dyschirius nitidus, Steph. Mand. 1. 40, et Manual, p. 11. 



Erichson, Kiifer, 37. Heer, Faun. Helv. 17. Putz. Mon.49. 



Shining brassy. Head with a deep rugose impression on each 

 side between the eyes united in front by a transverse elevated 

 line, running parallel to which are some minute striae ; mouth, 

 mandibles, palpi and basal joint of the antennae rusty red, apex 

 of the palpi and of the antennae pitchy. Thorax wide, rather 



