CARABID^. NOTIOPHILUS. 55 



This insect is apparently distinct from the preceding, though 

 Gyllenhall and Dejean have united them. It is shorter and 

 narrower, the head like it is deeply striated and carinated in 

 front, but usually, though not always, finely punctured behind 

 the eyes ; the antennae have three joints at the base entirely 

 testaceous ; the thorax is considerably shorter, with the project- 

 ing angle in the centre of the anterior margin rather more 

 prominent, the sides are more rounded in front and more con- 

 tracted behind (PL I. f. 7), the lateral margins and base less 

 depressed; the elytra are shorter and very distinctly narrowed 

 in front and the sides more rounded; the legs are bronzed 

 black, but with the tibise entirely testaceous. Length 2 lines. 



N. breviSj latior and brevicoltis, Waterhouse, as well as tibialis, 

 Stephens, are identical with this very common insect. 



3. N. rufipes : cupreo-ceneus, nitidus ; thoracis limbo punctato ; 



elytris apice flavescentibus, extus profunde punctato- 

 striatis ; antennis pedibusque ferrugineis. 



Curtis, Ent. pi. 254. Steph. Mand. 2. 190, et Manual, p. 60. 



" Cupreous, shining. Head as broad as the elytra, punctured 

 at the base, nasus and crown with deep longitudinal furrows. 

 Thorax transverse, scarcely so broad as the head before, and 

 narrower than the elytra behind, coarsely punctured, smooth 

 only on the disk, in the centre of which is a deep impression as 

 well as one at each of the posterior angles. Elytra very smooth, 

 slightly ochreous at the tips, with a few punctures round the 

 scutellum and a faint row down each side of the suture, six 

 deeply punctured strise close together towards the external 

 margin which is smooth, between the second and third stria? 

 before the middle is a fovea, and another near the apex ; antennae 

 and legs pale ferruginous, the former fuscous towards their 

 apex." Length 2^ lines. 



A single example of this insect was captured by Mr. Heysham 

 near Carlisle, many years ago, and described by Mr. Curtis, as 

 above quoted, in his ' British Entomology/ but that specimen 

 is now lost. However, I have seen two individuals in Mr. Water- 

 house's collection, which correspond acurately with the above 

 description. The insect is the more remarkable as being the 

 only European species of this genus with legs entirely red. 



4. N. semipunctatus : ceneus, nitidus ; thorace punctato disco 



sublcevi ; elytris extus punctato -striatis striis integris ; 

 antennis basi tibiisquc in medio testaceis. 



