50 CARABID^E. ELAPHRTTS. 



and elsewhere. It is found in the Orkney Isles as well as in the 

 west of Scotland, but the Irish examples are larger and more 

 metallic than those found in Scotland. 



Genus 16. ELAPHRUS, Fabricius. 



Men turn dente media bifido. Ligula obtuse rotundata, paraglossis 

 apice liberis, angustis, linearibus, ligulam superantibus. Palpi 

 articulo ultimo subovato, truncato. Mandibulse inermes. 

 Labrum truncatum. Tarsi antici maris articulis quatuor 

 leviter dilatatis, subtus apice spongiosis. 



* Prothorax truncato-cordatus, convexus. 



1. E. uliginosus : viridi-aneus, punctatissimus ; thorace capite 

 latiore, fronte thoraceque foveolatis ; elytris costis elevatis 

 interrupts maculisque ocellatis violaceis quadruplici serie 

 impressis. 



Fab. S. El. 1. 245. Dej. Spec. 2. 269 ; Icon. 2. 126. pi. 85. 

 Gyll. Ins. Suec. 4. 398. Sturm, D. F. 7. 131. Curtis, Ent. 

 pi. 179. Steph. Hand. 2. 33, et Manual, p. 60. Erichson, 

 Kafer, 5. Heer, Faun. Helv. 40. 



This species is abundantly distinct from the following ; above 

 it is brassy green. Head brilliant coppery green, finely and 

 densely punctured, with a transverse ridge extending quite 

 across between the antennae, a shallow fovea on each side behind 

 it, and a small impression on the crown. Thorax rather nar- 

 rowed in front, sides much dilated and rounded in the middle, then 

 suddenly narrowed, but with the posterior angles rectangular or 

 very slightly prominent, the entire surface very minutely and 

 densely punctured, with a large round deeply impressed fovea 

 before the middle, and a smaller one on each side of it a little 

 behind, and two others smaller than those below them, the 

 large impressed fovea being continued, but rather shallow towards 

 the base, before reaching which it becomes somewhat deeper 

 and terminates in a small raised tubercle, also close to each 

 posterior angle there is a deep large fovea, all these markings 

 are much more distinct than in cupreus, and the fine punctua- 

 tion that covers the entire surface is perfectly distinct and not 

 at all confluent as it is in the allied species. Elytra ovate, 

 very little widest behind the middle, finely punctate, each 

 with three series of round ocellated impressions, and between 

 every two of these impressions is an oblong, raised, smooth, 

 shining tubercle, the interstices between these series of impres- 

 sions and tubercles being formed of somewhat irregular raised 



