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2. N. livida : nigra, thoracis media elytrorum limbo late antennis 



pedibusque pallide testaceis. 



Carabus lividus, Linn. S. N. 2. 670. 



Nebria livida, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 38. 



Carabus sabulosus, Fab. S. El. 1. 179. 



Nebria sabulosa, Dej. Spec. 2. 224 ; Icon. 2. 74. pi. 74. 



Var. /3. elytrorum limbo anguste pallido y femoribus interdum infus- 



catis. Illiger. 



Carabus laterals, Fab. S. El. 1. 180. 

 Nebria lateralis, Dej. Spec. 2. 225. 

 N. livida (var. b.), Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 38. 

 N. livida, Curtis, Ent. pi. 6. Steph. Mand. 1. 60, et Manual, 



p. 16. 



This species is smaller, narrower and more elongate than 

 complanata. Head obscurely black, with a depression in the 

 centre, and a rough shallow fovea on each side between the 

 eyes; mouth, palpi and antennae pale testaceous. Thorax 

 testaceous, with the anterior margin and the base brownish 

 black and broadly depressed, the width much greater than the 

 length, the sides dilated and rounded at the middle, and the 

 anterior angles rather produced, much narrowed behind, poste- 

 rior angles obtuse but rather elevated, the lateral margins 

 broadly reflexed and punctured, disk with a short central line 

 terminating before and behind in the transverse depressions 

 above mentioned, base with two fovese. Elytra oblong, depressed, 

 rounded at the shoulders, sides almost straight, brownish black 

 with the margins pale testaceous, punctate-striated ; underside 

 obscure black, sides of the head transversely strigose beneath 

 the eyes, sides of the thorax testaceous, finely rugose-punctate, 

 sides of the abdomen coarsely punctured, .apex testaceous, legs 

 pale testaceous. Length 7-8 lines. 



British examples of this species must be referred to the variety 

 lateralis as they present the true characters of the Fabrician 

 insect, having the yellow margins of the elytra considerably 

 narrower than in the typical livida. The insect is local, but 

 may be taken abundantly near Bridlington and Scarborough, 

 by splitting open the crevices in the mud cliffs all along the 

 shore. 



(HELOBIA, Leach.} 



3. N. brevicollis : nigra, subdepressa, elytris crenato-striatis, 



stria tertid quadripunctatd ; antennis tibiis tarsisque rufo- 

 piceis. 



