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furrow more deeply impressed, and the basal fovese larger and 

 more strongly marked; scutellum red. Elytra more deeply 

 striated, testaceous red over a more considerable space in front, 

 with the suture and margins paler, and an oblong blue-black or 

 cyaneous patch behind the middle enclosing a semilunar or oblong 

 or roundish testaceous red spot common to both wing-cases be- 

 fore the apex ; breast black with a pale testaceous spot on the 

 scapulars ; legs also testaceous. Length 3 lines. 



Local. Newark; Battersea fields and Hammersmith marshes 

 at the roots of willows ; (< in profusion at Winterbourne Stoke, 

 Wilts, in March and April," Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



(TRIMORPHUS, Stephens.} 



3. B. peltatus : nigro-aneus, micans, thoracis elytrorumque mar- 



gine summo pedibmque brunneo-testaceis. (PI. I. f. C.) 



Carabus peltatus, Panz. Faun. 37. Dufts. Faun. 2. 147. 



Amblychus peltatus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 76. 



Badister peltatus, Sturm, D. F. 3. 189. Dej. Spec. 2. 408; 



Icon. 2. 226. pi. 1 1 . Erichson, Kafer, 24. Heer, Faun. 



Helv. 49. 

 Trimorphus Erro, Newman, Ent. Mag. 5. 489. Steph. Manual, 



p. 23. 



This species, which is about the size of a smallest bipustulatus, 

 is obscure brassy black, very shining, especially on the surface 

 of the elytra ; margins of the thorax and elytra narrowly edged 

 with brownish testaceous. Head black, smooth and shining ; 

 antennae slender, brownish black, base of the first joint paler. 

 Thorax subquadrate, sides rounded below the anterior angles, 

 thence narrowed behind, posterior angles obtuse, dorsal furrow 

 deep, base with two large impressed fovese. Elytra wider than 

 the thorax, oblong, slightly convex, distinctly striated, the striae 

 impunctate with the exception of two small impressions on the 

 second ; the surface suffused with bright cyaneous reflections in 

 certain lights ; underside of the body brownish black, legs dusky 

 testaceous. Length 2^ lines. 



Three examples of this rare insect are ascertained to have been 

 captured in England; one by Mr. Ingall near London, which is the 

 insect described by Mr. Newman in the ' Entomological Magazine' 

 under the name Trimorphus Erro ; two others have been obtained 

 by Mr. S. Stephens near Hammersmith. 



4. B. humeralis : nigro-obscurus, subnitidus ; thoracis margine 



elytrorum macula humerali margine pedibusque flavo-tes- 

 taceis. 



Bonelli, Obs. Ent. Mem. de 1'Acad. Imp. Turin, 1811-1812, 



