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broader than the base of the thorax, convex, punctate-striated, 

 the punctures disposed across the strise and disappearing behind 

 the middle, leaving the striae smooth to the extremity, the outer 

 margin with a series of larger impressions ; beneath pitchy, 

 breast and sides of the abdomen punctured, legs red. Length 

 31 lines. 



Brady tus torridus, Steph., is an immature ? of this common 

 species. 



20. A. fulva : ovata, ferruginea ; thorace brevi, subquadrato, 



postice utrinque bifoveolato, foveis punctatis ; elytris seneo- 

 micantibus, punctato-striatis. 



Carabus fulvus, De Geer, Ins. 4, 62. Dufts. Faun. 2. 107. 



Harpalus fulvus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 105. 



Amara fulva, Dej. Spec. 3. 511 ; Icon. 3. 303. pi. 169. 



Bradytus futons, Steph. Mand. 1. 137. 



B.ferrugineus, Steph. Mand. 1. 137, et Manual, p. 39. 



Ovate, ferruginous, paler beneath. Head short, with an im- 

 pression on each side between the antennae, which are pale testa- 

 ceous. Thorax short and broad, with the sides rounded below 

 the anterior angles, narrowed behind, hinder angles right angles, 

 disk wrinkled, having a slight dorsal furrow, base with two 

 punctured fovese on each side, and exterior to them an elevated 

 ridge running obliquely into the angle. Elytra rather broader 

 than the base of the thorax, disk glossed with greenish or bluish 

 brass, punctate-striated, the punctures vanishing before the apex ; 

 legs pale testaceous. Length 4-t lines. 



Abundant at Low Moor near Bradford under the shale and 

 stones; also found on sandy coasts at Ryde, Deal, Swansea, 

 Lowestoff; and at Ripley, Surry. 



(CuRTONOTUS, Stephens.) 

 (BRADITUS, Zimmermann.) 



21. A. spinipes : oblongo-ovata, nigro-picea ; thorace lateribus 



rotundato, postice coarctato, utrinque bistriato, basi apice- 

 que punctulato ; elytris striato-punctatis ; antennis pedibus- 

 que rufis. 



Carabus spinipes, Linn. F. S. 793. Schrank, Enum. Ins. Aust. 



212. 



C. bicolor, Fab. Mant. 1. 199. Payk. Mon. 122. 

 C. aulicus, Panz. Faun. 38. 

 Harpalus aulicus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 101. 



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