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rather depressed, regularly striated, the striae very finely punc- 

 tured, with three or four larger impressions next the third stria 

 between it and the second from the suture, and an irregular 

 series (more or less deficient) on the marginal interstice touching 

 the marginal stria ; legs pitchy black, or entirely black, some- 

 times wholly red, or the femora red with their tips black. 

 Length 4^ lines. 



This species is found in great profusion on the Welsh moun- 

 tains, as well as in Cumberland and the southern parts of 

 Scotland, and in Ireland. I have examined hundreds of 

 specimens which present every degree of variety that can be 

 desired, to resolve into one species the insects recorded as distinct 

 under the names Marshallana, Gyllenhallii, &c. H. dEthiops is 

 a broader and darker variety. There is another (very common 

 on Snowdon) not noticed, with the body black and the legs 

 entirely red. 



(PELOPHILA, Dejean.) 



5. N. borealis : obscure cenea ; elytris striatis, foveis majoribus 

 rotundatis duplici serie impressis. 



Gambits borealis, Payk. Mon. 51 (1790). Oliv. Ent. 3. 35. 



Fab. S. El. 1. 182. 

 Nebria borealis, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 42. 

 Pelophila borealis, Dej. Spec. 2. 263 ; Icon. 2. 117. pi. 84. 



Curtis, Ent. pi. 302. Steph. Hand. 5. 390, et Manual, p. 61. 



Head brassy black, with a shallow subrugose fovea on each 

 side near the eyes; palpi and antennae black. Thorax very 

 short, anterior margin slightly sinuated and produced in the 

 centre and at the angles, sides dilated and rounded before the 

 middle, narrowed behind, broadly margined and the margins 

 elevated, base truncate, hinder angles acute, glossy black, with 

 a slight dorsal furrow, the anterior margin and the base thickly 

 punctured and deeply depressed, the latter with two large fovese. 

 Elytra oblong-ovate, twice as wide as the base of the thorax, 

 sides slightly rounded, the apex obliquely sinuated and a little 

 acuminated, brassy black or brownish brass, obsoletely punctate- 

 striated, the striae on the sides being nearly obliterated, the 

 third interstice with four or five large impressions, and the fifth 

 with two or three others; underside of the body black, legs 

 sometimes wholly black, sometimes ferruginous, with the tip of 

 the femora, tibiae and joints of the tarsi dusky. Length 4-6 

 lines. 



This species was originally captured on the sandy shores of 

 Loch Neagh in Ireland, and has also been taken at Killarney 



