CARABID^E. ANCHOMENUS. 83 



a series of deep impressions ; underside smooth and impunctate, 

 legs red. Length 4 lines. 



Very rare. " Bognor ; Hastings ; Brighton ; and on the Nor- 

 folk coast." Mr. Stephens. In August and September 1849, I 

 captured three specimens in Bridge Wood, near Tunbridge Wells. 

 Mr. Janson obtained one last year in Highgate Wood, at sugar 

 placed to attract Noctuce. 



3. A. dorsalis : capite thoraceque viridibus, hoc angustato sub- 

 cordato, angulis posticis subrectis ; elytris oblongo-ovatis, 

 striatis, ferrugineis, macula communi posticd viridi-cyaned ; 

 antennarum basi pedibusque ferrugineis. 



Carabus dorsalis, Miiller, Prod. Zool. Dan. 78 (17/6). 



Buprestis bicolor, Fourc. Ent. Paris, 1. 44 (1785). 



Carabus prasinus, Thumb. Nov. Spec. 4. 74. f. 87 (1785). Fab. 



Maut. 1. 204 (1787). Payk. Mon. 57 (1790). 

 Harpalus prasinus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 83. 

 Anchomenus prasinus, Sturm, D. F. 5. 171. Dej. Spec. 3. 1 1G ; 



Icon. 2. 347. pi. 117. Steph. Hand. 1. 82, et Manual, p. 25. 



Erichson, Kafer, 118. Heer, Faun. Helv. 58. 

 Carabus viridanus, Fab. Mant. 1. 204. Payk. Mon. 57. 



The head and thorax are green, the elytra testaceous with a 

 large blue-black or greenish cyaneous patch on the disk common 

 to both and extending from above the middle to the apex, leaving 

 the margins broadly testaceous. Head large, convex, smooth, 

 having an impression on each side at the base of the antennae, 

 the latter are rusty red, with their base and the palpi paler. 

 Thorax subcordate, narrow, widest below the anterior angles and 

 rounded in that part, then contracted till just before the posterior 

 angles, which are almost right angles and slightly elevated, the 

 dorsal line abbreviated and met before and behind by a transverse 

 impression, the base also has two oblong foveas. Elytra oblong- 

 ovate, the humeral angles and sides rounded, the apex obliquely 

 sinuated, punctate-striated, having three larger impressions on 

 the third interstice and a series next the eighth stria ; legs pale 

 red. Length 3 lines. 



This species is described under the name C. dorsalis, in Miiller's 

 ' Prodromus/ which consequently claims priority. 



Commonly distributed. 



4. A. pallipes : alatus, nigro-piceus ; thorace cordato postice 

 coarctato punctatoque, angulis posticis acutiusculis ; elytris 

 oblongo-ovatis, striatis , margine plerumque rufescente ; an- 

 tennis pedibusque pallidis. 



Carabus pallipes, Fab. Mant. 1. 202(1 787). Fab. S. El. 1 . 187. 



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