114 CARABID.E. BROSCUS. 



ultimo subcylindrico, apice truncato ; maxillares articulo ul- 

 timo penultimo aquali, labiales eo breviore. Mandibulse 

 valida, inermes. Labrum truncatum. Tarsi antici maris 

 articulis dilatatis, primo elongato triangulari, secundo tertio- 

 que breviter obcordatis. 



1. B. cephalotes : ater, opacus ; thorace cordato, postice coarc- 

 tato ; elytris elongatis, subparallelis, subtilissime punctato- 

 striatis. 



Carabus cephalotes, Linn. F. S. 788 Fab. S. El. 1. 187. 



Harpalus cephalotes, Clairv. Ent. Helv. 2. 71. Gyll. Ins. Suec. 



2. 147. 

 Broscus cephalotes, Sturm, D. F. 4. 141. Steph. Mand. 1.118, 



et Manual, p. 34. 

 Cephalotes vulgaris, Dej. Spec. 3. 428 ; Icon. 3. 203. pi. 155. 



Erichson, Kiifer, 77. Heer, Faun. Helv. 19. 



Elongate, opake black. Head sparingly punctured and strigose, 

 with two broad punctured fovese between the antennae, the latter 

 black, with some of the upper joints fuscous testaceous. Thorax 

 cordate, very much contracted behind, very convex, with the 

 usual central line and the disk transversely wrinkled, the base 

 coarsely punctured; scutellum semirotundate, with an impression 

 on each side. Elytra elongate, shoulders rounded, sides some- 

 what parallel, but slightly widest behind the middle, convex, 

 very faintly punctate-striate, with seven or eight small remote 

 punctures near the outer margin ; legs elongate, anterior tibise 

 armed with two long spines, one at the apex and the other about 

 the middle. Length 8-10 lines. 



The generic name Cephalotes, Bonelli, is now commonly 

 received on the Continent to represent a group of five remark- 

 able insects, two only of which occur in Europe. The species 

 before us is the most commonly known, and stands as Cephalotes 

 vulgaris, Bonelli ; but Panzer's name Broscus claims rather the 

 priority, and the specific name vulgaris had already been 

 employed. 



This insect is very abundant, burrowing under stones and 

 marine rejectamenta, on many of the sandy coasts of England, 

 Scotland and Ireland; it is not, however, as has been commonly 

 supposed, exclusively a coast species, for it has been taken by 

 T. V. Wollaston, Esq. on a sandy common near Twigmoor, in 

 the north of Lincolnshire, forty miles from the sea; and I myself 

 have captured specimens near Woburn, in Bedfordshire, more 

 than double that distance from the coast. 



