136 CARABIDJ5. HARPALUS. 



sides rounded in front below the angles, narrowed behind the 

 middle, but straight before the hinder angles, so as to form with 

 the base a right angle, disk convex in the middle, but depressed 

 before and behind, strongly punctured, the punctures most 

 numerous at the base, which has a broad, obsolete fovea on each 

 side. Elytra very little wider than the base of the thorax, sides 

 very gradually rounded from below the humeral angles to just 

 before the apex, which latter is obliquely sinuated, striated, inter- 

 stices thickly and finely punctured ; legs red. Length 4 lines. 



Ophonus nitidulus, Steph., is identical with this species, which 

 is local, and occurs chiefly in the early spring, under stones and 

 clods of earth, at Newark, Bottisham, Hertford, Richmond, 

 Kimpton, Swansea, near Sandown in the Isle of Wight, and in 

 other parts of England. 



5. H. cordatus : elongatus, subpubescens, ferrugineus; capite 



thoraceque fortiter punctatis, hoc cordato pasties coarctato, 

 angulis posticis rectis ; elytris subparallelis, striatis, in- 

 terstitiis punctatissimis, macula oblonga postica fusc ; 

 antennis pedibusque rufo- testaceis. 



Carabus cordatus, Dufts. Faun. 2. 169. 



Harpalus cordatus, Sturm, D. F. 4. 106. pi. 94. Dej. Spec. 4. 

 214; Icon. 4. 115. pi. 182. Heer, Faun. Helv. 103. 



Elongate, subpubescent, ferruginous red. Head finely punc- 

 tured, with a shallow fovea on each side in front, eyes black, palpi 

 and antennse testaceous. Thorax heart-shaped, sides very much 

 rounded from the anterior angles to about the middle, thence 

 much narrowed till just before the hinder angles, when they 

 become straight so as to form with the base a right angle, disk 

 convex, regularly punctured, with a slight dorsal line and an 

 obsolete fovea on each side at the base. Elytra oblong, wider 

 than the thorax, shoulders very little rounded, sides almost 

 parallel, striated, interstices thickly and finely punctured, the 

 posterior portion covered by an oblong obscure dark patch 

 extending up the sides and leaving the centre more or less ferru- 

 ginous ; underside of the body and the legs testaceous. Length 

 4 lines. 



A single example only of this species has fallen under my 

 notice, which I captured near Deal, at the roots of the tall wiry 

 grass which grows on the sand-hills. 



6. H. rupicola : elongatus, subpubescens, capite thoraceque 



punctatis, rufescentibus, hoc subcordato, angulis posticis 

 subrectis; elytris piceis, obscure nigro-subvirescentibus, 



