CARABID^E. CALATHUS. 



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a transverse impression in front, enclosing an elevated space 

 between them ; mandibles pitchy, palpi and antennae testaceous 

 red. Thorax quadrate, narrowed in front, sides regularly rounded 

 and widest about the middle, obliquely narrowed behind, the 

 margins finely reflexed, posterior angles rounded, the dorsal 

 furrow interrupted in front by a triangular depression, base with 

 a large oblong smooth fovea on each side. Elytra ovate, mode- 

 rately striated, the striae impunctate, having four or five impressed 

 dots between the second and third striae ; body beneath pitchy 

 black, breast and abdomen more or less rufescent ; legs pitchy 

 red. Length 4-5 lines. 



A local species : " in profusion at Castle Howard, Yorkshire ; 

 Devonshire; Norfolk; Bottisham, Cambridgeshire," Mr. Stephens. 

 " Bamburgh, Twizell and Bradley Mill, Northumberland," Mr. 

 T. J. Bold. Leicester and the midland counties ; Coombe Wood, 

 &c. Frequent also in many parts of Scotland and Ireland. 



2. C. Cisteloides : apterus, niger ; thorace subquadrato, antice 

 angustato, postice utrinque impresso punctatoque, angulis 

 posticis rectis ; elytris striatis, striis subtilissime punctatis, 

 interstitiis tertio quintoque punctis remotis impressis ; 

 pedibus rufis vel piceo-nigris. 



Carabus Cisteloides, Panz. Faun. 11. 111. Kafer, 1. 163. 



Harpalus Cisteloides, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 125. 



Calathus Cisteloides, Dej. Spec. 3. 65 ; Icon. 2. 299. pi. 110. 



Steph. Mand. 1. 99, et Manual, p. 29. 

 Carabus frigidus, Fab. S. El. 1. 189. 



Wingless, black, palpi and antennae pitchy, basal joint of the 

 latter red. Thorax subquadrate, narrowest in front, sides nearly 

 straight behind and the posterior angles right angles, disk much 

 wrinkled, with a large oblong punctured impression on each side 

 at the base, which is also rugose. Elytra oblong-ovate, striated, 

 the striae obsoletely punctured, the third and fifth interstices with 

 several larger impressions and about six at the extremity of the 

 second ; legs red, tarsi pitchy, sometimes the legs are wholly 

 pitchy black, which variety represents the Carabus obscurus of 

 Marsham. Length 4-6 lines. 



Common. 



3. C. flavipes : apterus, nigro-piceus ; thorace subquadrato, an- 

 tice subangustato, postice utrinque impresso, angulis posti- 

 cis rectis ; elytris obsoletissime viridi-micantibus, striatis, 

 interstitio tertio punctis duobus impressis; antennis 

 pedibusque rufs. 



Buprcstis flavipes, Fourc. Ent. Paris. 1. 43 (1785). 



