CARABID.E. HARPALUS. 133 



very pubescent ; underside of thorax and abdomen black, legs 

 pale testaceous. Length 4-41 lines. 



(f Near Kingsbridge in Devonshire." Dr. Leach. 



Genus 41. HARPALUS, Latreilk. 



Mentum dente medio brevi obtuso, vel obsolete. Ligula apice 

 truncata vel sinuata ; paraglossis membranaceis, rotundatis, 

 ligulam hand superantibus. Palpi filiformes, articulo ultimo 

 fusiformi. Mandibulse breves, obtusiuscula. Labrum qua- 

 dratum, vix emarginatum. Tarsi anteriores maris articulis 

 quatuor valde dilatatis, subtus biseriatim pectinato-setosis, 

 primo triangulari, cateris obcordatis. 



The genus Ophonus was established by Ziegler and Megerle 

 in order to receive certain species of Harpali, which were 

 supposed to present characters at variance with those that pro- 

 perly belong to that genus. Dejean, and after him, most ento- 

 mologists, have now suppressed it and restored the species it 

 comprised to the genus Harpalus, because it was found upon 

 examination that they did not present points of distinction 

 sufficiently important and decided to warrant their separation. 

 In common with the other Harpali, they have a simple tooth 

 (obtuse or obsolete) in the middle of the mentum; the upper 

 lip, the mandibles, the palpi and antennae do not differ ; and 

 although in some species the anterior and intermediate tarsi of 

 the males are densely spinose and the upper surface of the body 

 in both sexes is pubescent, yet these are characters which they 

 possess in common with some of the indisputable Harpali ; all 

 that remains therefore is the punctuation of the upper surface, 

 which, of itself, cannot be considered of sufficient importance to 

 characterize a genus. 



* Prothorax punctatus ; elytra striata, interstitia creberrime 

 punctata. 



(OPHONUS, Ziegler.} 



1. H. sabulicola : oblongus, subpubescens, capite thoraceque 

 nigro-piceis, punctatis, hoc quadrato postice angustato, 

 angulis posticis obtusis ; elytris cyaneo-violaceis, striatis, 

 interstitiis punctatissimis ; antennis pedibusque rufis. 



Carabus sabulicola, Panz. Faun. 30. 



Harpalus sabulicola, Sturm, D. F. 4. 87. Dej. Spec. 4. 195 ; 



Icon. 4. 93. pi. 179. Heer, Faun. Helv. 101. 

 Ophonus sabulicola, Steph. Mand. 1. 160, et Manual, p. 46. 



