CARABID^!. STENOLOPHUS. 155 



red ; underside of the thorax red, breast and abdomen black ; 

 legs testaceous. Length 3 lines. 



Schrank's name is restored to this species in right of priority. 

 It is local ; but occasionally plentiful in Hammersmith marshes, 

 Battersea fields, &c. ; Fakenham; and in the Cambridgeshire 

 fens. 



2. S. Skrimshiranus : oblongus, capite pectore abdomineque 

 nigris ; thorace rufo, subquadrato, postice utrinque sub- 

 foveolato, angulis posticis rotundatis ; elytris rufis, striatis, 

 disco posteriore brunneo; antennarum basi pedibusque 

 pallide testaceis. 



Steph. Mand. 1. 166, et Manual, p. 48. 



Like Teutonus, but inferior in size, and having the elytra 

 entirely rufous, with the exception of a dusky, more or less 

 indistinct iridescent cloud at their extremity which blends with 

 the rufous colour. Head shorter, with similar impressions, 

 mouth, palpi and two joints at the base of the antennae testa- 

 ceous, the rest of the latter fuscous. Thorax shorter, subquadrate, 

 the breadth being greater than the length, the posterior angles 

 more rounded, disk convex, the basal impressions smaller and a 

 little deeper. Elytra oblong, more narrowed at the shoulders 

 than in the preceding species, the sides more rounded, disk 

 more deeply striated and the interstices more convex ; underside 

 as in the above species, legs paler testaceous. Length 2J lines. 



Abundant near Niton, Isle of Wight, in the spring and 

 autumn ; also taken at Madingley Wood and in the Cambridge- 

 shire fens, and near Yaxley, but veiy local. 



3. S. vespertinus : oblongus, ater ; thorace quadrato, postice 

 utrinque foveolato, foveis punctatis, angulis posticis subro- 

 tundatis ; elytris brunneo-testaceis, striatis, disco posteriore 

 atro subcyaneo ; thoracis margine antennarum basi pedi- 

 busque testaceis. 



Carabus vespertinus, 111. Kafer. 1. 197 (1798). Panz. Faun. 



37 (1789-1810). Dufts. Faun. 2. 147 (1812). 

 Stenolophus vespertinus, Dej. Spec. 4. 421 ; Icon. 4. 241 . pi. 198. 



Steph. Mand. 1. 166, et Manual, p. 48. Erichson, Kafer, 



60. Heer, Faun. Helv. 116. 



Var. /3. elytris atris cyaneo micantibus, margine pallido. 

 Carabus Ziegleri, Panz. Faun. 108. 



