88 CARABIDjE. ANCHOMENUS. 



C. parumpunctatus, Fab. Ent. S. 1. 157 (1792). Fab. S. El. 



1. 199. 



Harpalus parumpunctatus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 157. 



Agonum parumpunctatum, Sturm, D. F. 5. 210. Dej. Spec. 3. 



143 ; Icon. 2. 363. pi. 119. Steph. Manual, p. 26. 

 Anchomenus parumpunctatus, Erichson, Kiifer, 111. Heer, 



Faun. Helv. 61. 

 Agonum plicicolle, Nicol. Col. Agr. Hal. 19. 6. Steph. Mand. 



1.87. 



Head and thorax greenish brass, antennae fuscous black, with 

 the basal joint red. Thorax in form like that of 6-punctatus, 

 being widest in front with the sides rounded, a little narrowed 

 behind, finely margined and the edges reflexed, especially at the 

 posterior angles which are likewise rounded, disk transversely 

 wrinkled and furnished with a fine dorsal furrow, the base with 

 two fovese. Elytra brownish brass, the shoulders rather pro- 

 minent and rounded, the sides widest behind the middle, and the 

 apex obliquely sinuated, finely striated, the striae obsoletely 

 punctured, and with three or four deeper impressions on the 

 third interstice and a series on the external margin ; body 

 beneath black, thighs greenish black with their base pitchy red, 

 tibiae and tarsi testaceous. Length 3^-4 lines. 



The name given to this species by Miiller ought to receive 

 the preference. The insect is variable in colour, presenting 

 different shades of green, coppery or brassy, or blue-black, and 

 is very common. 



11 . A. victims : obscure viridi-aeneus; thoracelato transverso, an- 

 gulis posticis rotundatis ; elytris ovatis, punctato-striatis, 

 inter stitiis convexiusculis tertio tripunctato. 



Carabus viduus, Panz. Faun. 37. 



Harpalus viduus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 153. 



Agonum viduum, Sturm, D. F. 5. 185. Dej. Spec. 3. 149 ; Icon. 



2. 368. pi. 119. Steph. Mand. 1. 88, et Manual, p. 26. 

 Anchomenus viduus, Erichson, Kafer, 114. Heer, Faun. Helv. 



62. 



Larger than Itevis, but resembling it in form. Head black, 

 smooth and shining, with an oblong impression on each side 

 between the antennae, which with the palpi are black. Thorax 

 greenish black or olivaceous or entirely black, the breadth in the 

 middle greater than the length, sides rounded and deeply 

 margined and the margins broadly reflexed, especially at the 

 hinder angles, which are rounded, disk transversely strigose, the 

 dorsal furrow met in front by a curved impression, the basal 

 angles each with a large fovea. Elytra greenish brass, ovate, 



