84 CARABID^E. ANCHOMENUS. 



Anchomenus pallipes, Dej. Spec. 3. 119; Icon. 2. 349. pi. 117. 



Heer, Faun. Helv. 58. 

 Carabus albipes, Fab. S. El. 1. 187. 

 Harpalus albipes, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 82. 

 Anchomenus albipes, Sturm, D. F. 5. 175. Steph. Mand. 1. 82, 



et Manual, p. 25. Erichson, Kafer, 118. 



Winged, pitchy black or rusty red, witb the margins of the 

 elytra sometimes paler ; antennae ferruginous, the base and palpi 

 pale. Thorax cordate, delicately margined, much contracted 

 behind, posterior angles minute and acute, disk faintly channeled 

 and transversely wrinkled, base depressed and strongly punctured 

 and with two oblong fovese. Elytra very broad, ovate, shoulders 

 rounded, simply striated, with three impressions on the third 

 interstice and a series near the outer margin ; legs pale. Length 

 3J lines. 



Very common. 



5. A. oblongus : apterus, rufo-piceus ; thorace elongato angus- 



tato, postice punctato, angulis posticis acutiusculis ; elytris 

 punctato-striatis ; antennis pedibusque pallidis. 



Carabus oblongus, Fab. Ent. S. 1. 140 (1792). Fab. S. El. 1. 



185. 



Harpalus oblongus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 99. 

 Anchomenus oblongus, Sturm, D. F. 5. 1 73. Dej. Spec. 3. 121 ; 



Icon. 2. 351. pi. 117. Steph. Mand. 1. 82, et Manual, p. 25. 



Erichson, Kafer, 118. Heer, Faun. Helv. 59. 



Wingless, pitchy or rusty red. Head elongate, smooth and 

 shining with an impression on each side between the antennae 

 which with the palpi are ferruginous red. Thorax elongate and 

 narrowed, widest in front below the angles and rather rounded, 

 contracted behind, posterior angles prominent, disk convex, sides 

 and base not depressed, but much punctured, the dorsal furrow 

 very indistinct and terminating in front in numerous small 

 punctures. Elytra oblong-ovate, narrowest at the shoulders, 

 sides sinuated before the middle, dilated behind and the apex 

 rounded, very convex, deeply punctate-striated, pitchy castaneous; 

 legs pale testaceous. Length 2f lines. 



Rather local, but extremely abundant in marshy places. 



(AGONUM, Bonelli.) 



6. A. marginatus : viridis, nitidus ; thorace lateribus subrotun- 



dato ; elytris oblongo-ovatis, subtiliter striatis, punctis 

 tribus impressis, margine tibiisque flavo-pallidis. 



