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punctured and pubescent, legs yellow, apex of femora and tarsi 

 brownish black. Length 3 lines. 



Very local; but taken occasionally near Folkstone, Dover, 

 Canterbury, Kingstone, and other chalky districts of Kent. 



Genus 25. POGONUS, Dejean. 



Mentum profunde emarginatum, dente media bifido. Palpi articulo 

 ultimo oblongo-ovato, apice truncato. Mandibulse basi intus 

 denticulate, subarcuata, acutce. Labrum breve, transversum, 

 emarginatum. Tarsi antici maris articulis duobus dilatatis. 



1. P. luridipennis : viridi-aeneus ; thorace subtransverso , postice 

 coarctato, angulis posticis subrectis ; elytris ochraceis, 

 ceneo micantibus, subparallelis, striato-punctatis, punctis 

 tribus impressis ; ore antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 



Harpalus luridipennis. Germ. Ahrens, Faun. Eur. 7. 2. (1812, 



&c.). 



Pogonus luridipennis, Dej. Spec. 3. 9 ; Icon. 2. 244. pi. 103. 

 P. Burrellii, Curtis, Ent. pi. 47. Steph. Hand. 1. 106, et 



Manual, p. 31. 



Head and thorax brassy green with coppery reflections, the 

 former with an oblong fovea on each side and transversely 

 wrinkled on the crown, mouth, palpi and antennae reddish testa- 

 ceous. Thorax transverse, short, sides rounded in front from 

 below the angles to behind the middle, then straight, the 

 posterior margin being sloped towards the hinder angles so as 

 to render them not quite rectangular, disk convex, strongly 

 wrinkled, having a deep dorsal furrow which is entire but 

 intersected in front by a slightly rugose transverse impression, 

 the base depressed punctured and rugose, having a broad not 

 very deep punctured fovea near each angle, exterior to which is 

 an elevated line running into the angle itself. Elytra ochreous 

 with a bronzed cloud on the disk, broad, a little rounded below 

 the angles, punctate-striated, the strise appearing rather greenish, 

 and most deeply impressed in the centre of the disk, less deep 

 on the sides and at the apex, the second stria with a deeper 

 puncture before the extremity, and the third with two others 

 placed one about the middle and another before the middle; 

 underside black, legs reddish testaceous. Length 3^ lines. 



This conspicuous and well-marked species was first discovered 

 in this country near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast by the late 

 Rev. 3. Burrell, after whom Mr. Curtis named it, but it had 

 previously been described in Ahrens' European Fauna under the 



