146 CARABID^:. HARPALUS. 



assigned to this species. The true C. Caffer, Dufts., is a larger 

 insect and is not found in Britain. 



Not common : I have found it only in the Isle of Wight and 

 near Sandy, in Bedfordshire, very early in the spring ; it is to 

 be sought for in 'sandy districts. 



21. H. fulvipes : oblong o-ovatus, nigro-piceus ; thorace subqua- 

 drato, basi punctato utrinque subfoveolato, angulis posticis 

 obtusiusculis ; elytris striatis ; antewiis pedibusque rufis. 



Carabusfulvipe^Fsh.S.El. 1. 180. ?, Dufts. Faun. 2.84.91. 

 Harpalus fulvipes, Sturm, D. F. 4. 58. pi. 86. Erichson, 



Kafer, 50. 



Carabus limbatus <J, Dufts. Faun. 2. 84. 92. 

 Harpalus limbatus <J, Sturm, D. F. 4. 50. pi. 83. Steph. Mand. 



1. 149, et Manual, p. 43. Dej. Spec. 4. 327; Icon. 4. 186. 



pi. 192. 

 H. acuminatus et lateralis, Steph. Mand. 5. 380, et Manual, 



p. 43. 



Oblong-ovate, pitchy black, with the margins of the thorax 

 narrowly testaceous. Head wide, depressed in front, with a 

 transverse line more or less evident between the eyes, palpi and 

 antennae red. Thorax subquadrate, the width rather greater than 

 the length, anterior margin nearly straight, sides rounded at the 

 angles, then almost straight to the base, posterior angles rather 

 obtuse, disk depressed, transversely wrinkled on each side the 

 dorsal furrow, which in some examples is met in front by a few 

 longitudinal striae, the base, together with two wide fovese finely 

 punctulated, sometimes a little rough. Elytra ovate, widest 

 behind the middle, striated, most deeply in the $ , interstices 

 very smooth, the seventh impunctate at the apex ; legs red. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Erichson informs us that he has seen this insect standing as 

 C. fulvipes in the Fabrician collection, and C. rufibarbis, Fab., 

 agreeing therewith ; also that C. fulvipes, Dufts., is the ? and 

 C. limbatus, Dufts., the <J of the same species, of which also 

 H.flaviventris, Sturm, is an immature example. In the Linnsean 

 cabinet a portion of the specimens placed to represent C. latus 

 belong to this species, but they can scarcely have been intended 

 by our great naturalist to represent the insect referred to by him 

 under that name. H. acuminatus and lateralis of the Stephen- 

 sian cabinet belong to this species. Examples sometimes occur 

 with red heads, and these represent C. erythrocephalus, Fab., and 

 H. ruficeps of British collections. 



Common. 



