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CARABID^E. NOTIOPHILUS. 



Var. a. elytris apice immaculatis. 



Elaphrussemipunctatus, Fab. Mant. 1. 188. Fab. S. El. 1. 246. 



Var. /3. elytris apicejlavescentibus. 



E. Uguttatus, Fab. Mant. 1. 188. Fab. S. El. 1.247. Gyll. 



Ins. Suec. 4. 399. 

 Notiophilus biguttatus, Dej. Spec. 2. 279; Icon. 2. 137. pi. 87. 



Steph. Maud. 2. 33, et Manual, p. 60. Heer, Faun. 



Helv. 42. 



N. palustris, Steph. Mand. 5. 389. 

 N. latus et striatus, Waterhouse, Ent. Mag. 1. 209. 



Var. y. angustior, elytris subtiliter punctato-striatis. 

 N. nitidus, Waterhouse, Ent. Mag. 1. 203. 

 N. biguttatus, Waterhouse, Ent. Mag. 1. 210. 

 N. substriatus, Waterhouse, Ent. Mag. 1. 211. 



This species is more depressed and parallel than either of the 

 preceding : it is very brilliant shining (usually brownish) brass 

 above. Head finely striated in front, some of the joints at the 

 base of the antennae more or less testaceous. Thorax short, 

 wide, with the usual prominent angle in the centre of the ante- 

 rior margin, sides very slightly rounded immediately below 

 the angles, then obliquely sloped towards the base, which is 

 broader than in any of the foregoing species (PL I. f. 8), the 

 disk depressed, more or less thickly but finely punctured 

 throughout, having (in some examples) a small subpunctate or 

 strigose space on each side the dorsal furrow about the middle, 

 a deep fovea near each posterior angle, and all the margins more 

 deeply punctured than the rest of the disk. Elytra broad, sides 

 parallel, with a very finely punctured stria next the suture, 

 which gives place at the extremity to a deep smooth stria, then 

 a broad, highly polished, smooth space, then six entire punctured 

 striae, the one next the polished space being flexuous near the 

 extremity and united to the sutural one at the tip, while more 

 distant from these six, and close to the margin, is a short one at 

 the base, and between the third and fourth striae is a deep 

 impression about the middle, and a smaller one at the apex ; 

 the tibiae are sometimes entirely testaceous, sometimes pale only 

 in the middle. Length 2^ lines. 



The variety of this species with the apex of the elytra imma- 

 culate appears to have been described by Fabricius first under 

 the name semipunctatus, and he subsequently described the 

 var. /3, which is apparently the type (being far most abundant), 

 as biguttatus, with which palustris, Steph. (not Dufts.) and latus 

 and striatus, Waterhouse, perfectly agree. The variety 7. is 

 smaller, narrower, and most minutely punctured, and the punc- 

 tured striae sometimes become very obsolete, or are entirely 



