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22. H. rubripes : oblongo-ovatus ; thorace subquadrato, postice 

 utrinquepunctulato, subfoveolato, angulis posticis subrectis ; 

 elytris striatis, inters titio septimo apice punctis pluribus 

 impresso ; antennis pedibusque rubris. 



Mas, supra viridi-aneus vel cyaneus nitidus : foemina, capite 

 thoraceque nigro subcyaneis, elytris opacis. 



Carabus rubripes, Dufts. Faun. 2. 77. 



Harpalus rubripes, Sturm, D. F. 4. 55. Dej. Spec. 4. 339 ; 

 Icon. 4. 194. pi. 193. Steph. Mand. 1. 147, et Manual, 

 p. 42. Erichson, Kafer, 49. Heer, Faun. Helv. 107. 



H. azurescens, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 4. 432. 



H. azureus, Steph. Mand. 1. 147, et Manual, p. 42. 



H. chloropterus, marginellus et fulvipes, Steph. Mand. 1. 148, 

 et Manual, p. 42. 



H. subsinuatus, Steph. Mand. 1. 149, et Manual, p. 43. 



H. lentus, Steph. Mand. 1. 150, et Manual, p. 43. 



H. ignavus, Steph. Mand. 1. 153, et Manual, p. 44. 



II. Petiffii, Steph. Mand. 5. 380, et Manual, p. 42. 



Var. (3. pedibus nigro-piceis. 



H.punctigerQinigro-cceruleus, Steph. Mand. 1. 149, et Manual, 

 p. 42. 



Head and thorax greenish black, elytra brilliant green, purple 

 or blue-black and shining in the $ \ head and thorax black, 

 elytra obscure dull green in the ? . Head smooth and convex ^ ' 

 behind, depressed in front, with a small deep pit on each side, 

 connected by a transverse line, palpi and antennae red. Thorax 

 subquadrate, the breadth greater than the length, slightly nar- 

 rowed in front, posterior angles nearly rectangular, disk covered 

 with numerous transverse wrinkles, the dorsal furrow strongly 

 marked and terminating in a deeper impression behind, base 

 with two fovese, which, together with the base itself, are punc- 

 tured, but more sparingly and less distinctly in the ? . Elytra 

 as broad as the base of the thorax, sides very slightly rounded, 

 deeply striated, interstices convex in the $ , less deeply striated 

 and the interstices flatter in the ? , the seventh sometimes with 

 a few small punctures near the extremity, margin with a series 

 of deeper impressions ; underside black, legs red, femora some- 

 times blackish with the tibiae and tarsi pitchy, cilia red. Length 

 4J-5 lines. 



H. rubripes, azureus, chloropterus, fulvipes, marginellus, lentus, 

 subsinuatus, Petiffii, ignavus, nigro -ctsruleus, and punctiger (in 

 part) must be assigned to this species. The two last are varieties 

 with pitchy black legs, and lentus an immature ? . The true 

 lentus, Sturm, is identical with tardus. 



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