52 CARABID^E. ELAPHRUS. 



Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 8. Dej. Spec. 2. 273 ; Icon. 2. 131. pi. 8G. 

 Curtis, Ent. Mag. 1. 38. Steph. Mand. 5. 390, et Manual, 

 p. 61. 



Above brassy green, or coppery red, more or less shining. 

 Head and thorax coarsely punctured, the former with a transverse 

 line in front, but with the fovese obsolete or scarcely perceptible. 

 Thorax rather narrow, sides rounded at the middle and mode- 

 rately contracted behind, posterior angles right angles, thickly 

 and deeply punctured, with a short dorsal furrow which is bifid 

 in front, and with a shallow fovea near each hinder angle. 

 Elytra oblong- ovate, more elongate than either of the preceding, 

 with the shoulders narrowed and rounded, the sides rather 

 widest about the middle, disk with a few minute scattered 

 punctures, and four rows of obscure ocellated round fovese, and 

 sometimes between those of the series next the suture there are 

 three or four raised oblong shining spaces, but oftener deficient, 

 these and the spaces between the fovese, as well as the intervals 

 between the rows, being equally without elevations; body beneath 

 greenish or purplish copper, with the head, thorax, sides of the 

 breast, and femora punctured. Length 4^ lines. 



" Taken on Catlaw and Clova mountains in Forfarshire " by 

 Sir C. Lyell ; and at St. Kilda by Mr. J. M'Gillivray. 



4. E. riparius : viridi-tsneus, punctatissimus ; elytris maculis 

 ocellatis quadruplici serie impressis. 



Cicindela riparia, Linn. F. S. 749; S. N. 2. 658. 



Elaphrus riparius, Fab. Mant. 1. 187; S. El. 1. 245. Gyll. 



Ins. Suec. 2. 9. Sturm, D. F. 7. 133. Dej. Spec. 2. 274 ; 



Icon. 2. 132. pi. 86. Steph. Mand. 2. 35, et Manual, p. 61. 



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



Head coppery or brassy green, very densely and minutely 

 punctured, without fovese; antennse greenish at the base, the 

 upper joints fuscous black and pubescent. Thorax narrowed be- 

 fore and behind, sides rounded and dilated in the middle, brown- 

 ish brassy, very minutely and densely punctured, with a dorsal 

 line bifid in front, and an oblong fovea near each hinder angle. 

 Elytra broad, dilated behind the middle, densely and minutely 

 punctured, brownish brassy, with four rows of round ocellated 

 fovese; femora and tarsi green, tibise testaceous. Length 3 lines. 



Abundant at Whittlesea Mere; common in damp marshy 

 places near London ; Carlisle ; in Suffolk, &c. ; found also in 

 Ireland and in Scotland. 



