CARABINE. ANCHOMENUS. 85 



Carabus marginatus, Linn. F. S. 804. Fab. S. El. 1. 199. 



Harpalus marginatus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 154. 



Agonum marginatum, Dej. Spec. 3. 133; Icon. 2. 355. pi. 118. 



Steph. Mand. 1. 85, et Manual, p. 25. 

 Anchomenus marginatus, Erichson, Kafer, 109. 



Rich satiny green, head and thorax with a coppery tinge, 

 rarely dark purplish green, the lateral margins of the thorax 

 narrowly, the entire margins of the elytra broadly edged with 

 yellow. Head finely wrinkled, eyes prominent, antennae pitchy 

 black, basal joint testaceous. Thorax short, sides regularly and 

 equally rounded, posterior angles rounded, disk very much 

 wrinkled, the dorsal furrow fine, terminating before in a deeper 

 curved impression, base with two foveae close to the hinder 

 angles. Elytra broad, shoulders rather elevated and rounded, 

 sides somewhat parallel, apex produced, finely striated, interstices 

 flat, the third with three deep punctures and a series on the 

 margin, suture dull reddish copper ; legs pitchy black, tibiae 

 pale yellow. Length 4- lines. 



Plentiful in marshy places, banks of streams, &c. 



7. A. sexpunctatus : capite thoraceque viridi-aneis, hoc trans- 

 verso, angulis posticis rotundatis ; elytris rubro-cupreis, 

 subtiliter punctato-striatis, interstitio tertio punctis sex 

 impressis. 



Carabus sexpunctatus, Linn. F. S. 807. Fab. S. El. 1. 199. 

 Harpalus sexpunctatus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 156. 

 Agonum sexpunctatum, Sturm, D. F. 5. 202. Dej. Spec. 3. 140; 

 Icon. 2. 360. pi. 118. Steph. Mand. 1. 86, et Manual, p. 25. 

 Anchomenus sexpunctatus, Erichson, Kafer, 1 10. 



Head and thorax brilliant green, brassy, sides of the latter 

 reddish copper ; palpi and antennae black. Thorax transverse, 

 broad, sides rounded below the anterior angles, also rounded 

 and narrowed behind, margins reflexed, and together with a 

 broad punctate fovea near each hinder angle very rugose and 

 punctured, the disk also transversely wrinkled, and faintly 

 channeled down the centre. Elytra broad and short, rather 

 widest behind the middle, otherwise the sides appear almost 

 straight, apex slightly produced, rather more convex than mar- 

 ginatus, very finely striated, the striae faintly punctured, inter- 

 stices slightly rugose, the third with six deep impressions, more 

 rarely with five, seven or eight, and a series on the external 

 margin most frequent at the base and near the apex, the entire 

 surface is brilliant coppery red, very shining, with the scutellum 

 and entire margin green ; underside dark green, legs brassy 



