90 CARABID^E. ANCHOMENUS. 



mcpstus and fuliginosus ; it is deep shining black. Head smooth, 

 mouth reddish, palpi and base of the antennae pitchy, apex of the 

 latter fuscous black. Thorax narrower than in mcestus and the 

 sides less rounded, margins less reflexed, posterior angles likewise 

 less evidently rounded, but more obliquely sloped to the base 

 and the basal foveae smaller. Elytra oblong-ovate, rounded at 

 the sides but very slightly widest behind the middle, apex ob- 

 liquely sinuated, striated, striae very faintly punctured, interstices 

 flat, the third with three minute punctures ; legs pitchy black. 

 Length 3J lines. 



Found in Hants; Cornwall and other western counties of 

 England ; abundant near Bristol. 



14. A. fuliginosus : piceo-niger, nitidus ; thorace lateribus ro- 

 tundato, postice angustato, angulis posticis rotundatis ; 

 elytris ovatis, striatis, striis obsoletissime punctatis, inter- 

 stitio tertio punctis quinque impresses ; pedibus rufo-piceis. 



Carabus fuliginosus, Panz. Faun. 108. 



Agonum fuliginosum, Sturm, D. F. 5. 192. Dej. Spec. 3. 163; 

 Icon. 2. 380. pi. 122. Steph. Mand. 1. 93, et Manual, p. 27. 

 Anchomenus fuliginosus, Erichson, Kafer, 117. 

 Agonum 4-punctatum, Steph. Mand. 1. 90, et Manual, p. 26. 

 Ag.piceum, Steph. Mand. 1. 91. 



Ag. Simpsoni, striatum et pullum, Steph. Mand. 1. 92. 

 Ag.fuscipenne, Steph. Mand. 1. 93, et Manual, p. 27. 

 Ag. gracile, Steph. Mand. 1. 94. 

 Ag. pusillum, Steph. Mand. 1. 95, et Manual, p. 28. 



Head black, with an oblong fovea on each side at the base of 

 the antennae, which together with the palpi are pitchy black, man- 

 dibles usually pitchy red. Thorax (PI. II. f. 1) with the sides 

 regularly rounded and gradually narrowed towards the base, 

 which is about two-thirds the width of the anterior part, posterior 

 angles likewise somewhat rounded, disk convex, smooth and 

 shining on each side the dorsal line, which terminates before and 

 behind in a distinct impression, base with two oblong smooth 

 foveae. Elytra ovate, rather narrowed in front and rounded at 

 the angles, sides then widening till behind the middle, but 

 lessening at the apex, striated, striae obsoletely punctured, with 

 occasionally but not always four or five more distinct impressions 

 between the second and third striae ; the colour varies from pitchy 

 black to pitchy testaceous; the legs are always more or less 

 pitchy brown. Length 3 lines. 



The insects recorded by Stephens under the names Simpsoni, 

 pullum, striatum, pusillum and fuscipenne, belong to this species. 

 The supposed examples of Agonum gracilc, piceum and 4>-puncta- 



