CARABIDJS. ELAPHRUS. 53 



** Prothorax subquadratus, planiusculus. 

 (BLETHISA, Bonelli.) 



5 . 1. multipunctatus : obscure emeus, limbo mrescente, elytris 

 punctato-striatis foveis magnis duplici serie impressis. 



Carabus multipunctatus y Linn. F. S. 805. Fab. S. El. 1. 182. 



Nebria multipunctata, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 44. 



Blethisa multipunctata, Dej. Spec. 2. 266 ; Icon. 2. 121. pi. 84. 



Sturm, D. F. 7. 124. Steph. Maud. 2. 36, et Manual, 



p. 61. Curtis, Ent. pi. 326. 

 Elaphrus multipunctatus ', Erichson, Kafer, 6. Heer, Faun. 



Helv. 41. 



Brownish, or greenish brass. Head rather coppery in front, 

 with a deep fovea on each side near the eyes, and behind these 

 a transverse impression, the hinder part of the head finely and 

 sparingly punctured. Thorax subquadrate, shortish, sides rather 

 widest in the middle, broadly margined and the margins reflexed 

 and punctured, rather narrowed behind, but with the base still 

 broad and the posterior angles acute, the disk convex, with the 

 dorsal furrow terminated before and behind by a transverse punc- 

 tured depression, the base having also a deeply punctate impressed 

 fovea on each side and an elevated fold externally running into the 

 angle itself. Elytra broadly ovate, sides somewhat straight, disk 

 convex, margins greenish, finely and irregularly punctate-striated, 

 the interstices forming irregularly elevated ribs, the third inter- 

 rupted with four or five, and the fifth with three or four large round 

 deeply impressed shining brassy foveee ; body beneath coppery 

 or greenish brass, sides of the thorax rugosely punctured, legs 

 brassy black. Length 5^ lines. 



Common at Whittlesea Mere and in the Cambridgeshire 

 fens ; also near Sudbury, Suffolk ; in Essex ; near Carlisle, &c. ; 

 less frequent in Scotland ; it is included also in Mr. Haliday^s 

 list of the Irish Coleoptera. 



Genus 17. NOTIOPHILUS, Dumeril. 



Mentum dente medio nullo. Ligula lata, apice acuminata ; para- 

 glossis apice liberis, angustis, linearibus, ligulam mx superan- 

 tibus. Palpi articulo ultimo subovato, truncato. Mandibula? 

 inermes. Labrum apice rotundatum. Tarsi antici marts 

 articulis tribus vix dilatatis, subtus dense spongiosis. 



