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costse, on the margin there is a fourth series of round impressions 

 but without any raised tubercles between them ; the body beneath 

 is shining green, underside of the thorax and sides of the breast 

 punctured ; femora brassy green, tibiae and tarsi obscure black. 

 Length 3|4 lines. 



Found at Whittlesea Mere and in the Cambridgeshne fens. 

 " Coombe Wood ; Swansea ; Fyfield, Hants ; and Devonshire." 

 Mr. Stephens. " In peat pits at Weston on the Green." Rev. 

 A. Matthews. 



2. E. cupreus : obscure-aneus, punctatissimus ; thorace capitis 



latitudine, fronte thoraceque leviter foveolatis ; elytris 

 maculis ocellatis quadruplid serie impressis. 



Dufts. Faun. 2. 194. Dej. Spec. 2. 271 ; Icon. 2. 127. pi. 85. 

 Gyll. Ins. Suec. 4. 398. Sturm, D. F. 7. 130. Steph. 

 Mand. 2. 34, et Manual, p. 61. Erichson, Kafer, 5. Heer, 

 Faun. Helv. 40. 

 E. uliginosus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 6. 



This insect is brownish brass above, with somewhat of a 

 purplish tinge on the elytra. Head very densely punctured, and 

 with a transverse curved line in front, a shallow fovea on each 

 side before the eyes and another behind them, and also a faint 

 impression on the crown, but all these impressions are consider- 

 ably less distinct than in uliginosus. Thorax wider in front than 

 in that species, but the sides not nearly so much dilated in the 

 middle, nor more narrowed at the base than in front, posterior 

 angles acute and prominent, the surface more distinctly punc- 

 tured, and the punctures somewhat confluent, the fovese after 

 the manner of the preceding, but much more indistinct and the 

 largest bifid before it reaches the base, the two ends continued 

 to the margin and forming a triangular space between them. 

 Elytra ovate, sides rather widest behind the middle, the markings 

 somewhat after the same manner, but the raised costse very much 

 interrupted and obsolete, or entirely wanting ; underside of the 

 body and the femora brassy green, tibiae testaceous, tarsi cya- 

 neous and shining. Length 3| lines. 



A very common and abundant species in marshes and damp 

 woods; less frequent in Scotland. It is included also among 

 the Irish Carabida. 



3. E. Lapponicus : oblongus, cupreo-ceneus ; capite thoraceque 



subfoveolatis ; elytris pares punctatis maculis ocellatis 

 obsoletis quadruplid serie impressis. 



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