38 CARABID^E. CARABUS. 



basal joint of the antennae is large and red and the thighs occa- 

 sionally red also. Length 8-10 lines. 



Stephens informs us that "four examples only of this insect 

 have occurred in Britain ; they were taken in a chalk-pit near 

 Gravesend in the spring of 1826." 



7. C. clathratus : oblong o-ovatus, nigro-aneus ; elytris costis 



tribus integris elevatis foveisque aureis triplici serie alternis. 



Linn. F. S. 782. Fab. S. El. 1. 176. Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 67. 

 Sturm, D. F. 3. 102. Dej. Spec. 2. 108 ; Icon. 1. 363. pi. 51 . 

 Steph. Mand. 1. 54, et Manual, p. 15. Erichson, Kafer, 16. 

 Heer, Faun. Helv. 25. 



Head black, obsoletely punctate and strigose, with an oblong 

 fovea and an elevated ridge on each side ; four joints at the base 

 of the antennae black, the rest fuscous and pubescent. Thorax 

 quadrate and short, rather narrowed in front, sides rounded, 

 margins elevated especially behind, posterior angles rounded, 

 disk brassy black, with a deep central furrow profoundly im- 

 pressed about the middle and on each side behind a deep bilobed 

 fovea, very finely punctulated throughout. Elytra narrowed in 

 front, dilated behind the middle, greenish or brownish brass or 

 fuscous black, with three elevated ribs, the one close to the suture 

 being less elevated, the interstices finely granulated, each with 

 a single row of deep round coppery or golden fovea?, and between 

 every two an oblong raised tubercle presenting the appearance 

 of an elevated interrupted line, the margins finely granulated 

 and with a continuous series of small round coppery fovese ; under 

 side of the body and legs shining black. Length 11-13 lines. 



This insect is reported to have been taken several years ago in 

 Halvergate Marsh, Norfolk. It is very abundant on the coast 

 of Ireland and in many parts of Scotland. " Clova mountains, 

 Forfarshire; abundant in Mull, Hebrides, &c." Murray's Cata- 

 logue of Scottish Coleoptera. 



8. C. auratus : oblong o-ovatus, viridis ; elytris costis tribus 



elevatis, interstitiis sublcevibus ; antennarum basi, pedibus- 

 que rufis. 



Linn. F. S. 786. Fab. S. El. 1. 1 75. Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 68. 

 Sturm, D. F. 3. 33. Dej. Spec. 2. 1 1 1 ; Icon. 1 . 367. pi. 53. 

 Steph. Mand. 1. 55. pi. 3, et Manual, p. 16. Erichson, Kafer, 

 17. Heer, Faun. Helv. 25. 



Head green, rather coppery in the middle, punctured and 

 rugose, having an oblong impression on each side; mouth, 

 mandibles and four joints at the base of the antennae red, tip of 

 the mandibles pitchy and the upper joints of the antennse fuscous. 



