CARABID.E. PTEROSTICHUS. 99 



Platysma lepida, Sturm, D. F. 5. 92. 



Feronia lepida, Dej. Spec. 3. 218 ; Icon. 3. 21. pi. 127. 



Pcecilus lepidus, Steph. Mand. 1. 108, et Manual, p. 31. 



Curtis, Ent. pi. 187. 

 Pterostichus lepidus, Erichson, Kafer, 67. Heer, Faun. Helv. 



70. 



Wingless, narrower and more oblong than the preceding 

 species, head and thorax brilliant shining greenish copper, 

 purplish or greenish black, elytra also coppery or greenish 

 brass, more rarely greenish or bluish black. Head convex 

 behind, depressed in front of the antenna?, the frontal fovese 

 smaller, and the eyes less prominent than in dimidiatus, mandi- 

 bles, palpi and antennae wholly black. Thorax narrower, more 

 quadrate, more finely margined, more contracted behind, more 

 convex and smooth on the disk, the basal striae more deeply 

 impressed, the base smoother and the posterior angles more 

 rectangular. Elytra oblong, rather contracted in front, sides 

 very slightly rounded, strongly margined, disk rather flattish, 

 moderately and less coarsely striated than in dimidiatus, the 

 stria? so obsoletely punctulated as to be sometimes scarcely per- 

 ceptible, the third with three impressions, interstices flattish ; 

 underside greenish black, sides of the breast and of the abdomen 

 in front finely punctured, legs wholly black. Length 6 lines. 



Rather a scarce species, but it has been taken sparingly in 

 Norfolk, Devon and Hants; at Ely, Cambridge, Northampton, 

 Hertford and Darenth Wood. It has on more than one occasion 

 been found in some numbers at Charlton sand-pits in the spring, 

 by breaking open the crevices in the rocks, in which they conceal 

 themselves. " Tollcross, near Glasgow." Mr. Hislop. 



(ABAX, Bonelli.) 



4. P. striola : apterus, niger, depressus ; thorace subquadrato, 

 basi utrinque profunde bistriato, angulis posticis rectis ; 

 elytris profunde striatis, interstitiis planiusculis, linea 

 laterali subcarmata. 



Carabus striola, Fab. S. El. 1. 188. 



Harpalus striola, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 124. 



Abax striola, Sturm, D. F. 4. 147. Steph. Mand. 1. 125, et 



Manual, p. 35. 



Feronia striola, Dej. Spec. 3. 378 ; Icon. 3. 151. pi. 148. 

 Pterostichus striola, Erichson, Kafer, 69. Heer, Faun. Helv. 79. 



Wingless, broad, depressed, shining black. Head with an 

 oblong fovea on each side between the eyes, and some elevated 

 lines between them and the fovea3 ; antennae with three joints 



