156 CARABID^. STENOLOPHUS. 



This insect resembles Teutonus in form, but is smaller. Head 

 black and shining, with a fovea on each side in front, palpi tes- 

 taceous, penultimate joint ringed with fuscous black, antennse 

 fuscous black with the basal joint testaceous. Thorax quadrate, 

 a little rounded at the sides, posterior angles subrotundate, 

 entire margin narrowly, and the posterior angles, edged with tes- 

 taceous, base with a wide punctate fovea on each side. Elytra 

 oblong, rather narrow, deeply striated, the interstices convex, 

 dusky testaceous, with a black, somewhat cyaneous patch behind, 

 extending upwards considerably and sometimes covering the 

 entire disk and leaving the shoulders and margins alone pale ; 

 underside black, legs pale testaceous. Length 2| lines. 



Pale examples of this species cannot be confounded with 

 Skrimshiranus, because the form is different. The thorax is 

 more quadrate and the posterior angles are less rounded, in which 

 respects it resembles Teutonus; whereas in Skrimshiranus the 

 thorax is shorter, more narrowed behind, and the posterior angles 

 are distinctly rounded ; the basal fovea?, moreover, in vespertinus 

 are broader and evidently punctured. 



This species is somewhat local, but in many places abundant, 

 It is found in marshes and on the banks of rivers, &c. Hammer- 

 smith ; Battersea fields ; Brentford and Kingsbury ; Southend ; 

 Whittlesea Mere and the Cambridgeshire fens; near Norwich, &c. 



4. S. elegans : oblongus, capite pectore abdomineque nigris, 

 thorace ferrugineo, lato, subquadrato, postice coarctato 

 utrinque foveolato, angulis posticis rotundatis; elytris rufo- 

 testaceis,striatis, macula oblonga postica nigro-subcyanea; 

 antennarum basi, tibiis tarsisque testaceis, femoribus obscu- 

 rioribus. (PI. II. f. B.) 



Dej. Spec. 4. 412; Icon. 4. 243. pi. 198. Redt. Faun. Aust. 

 102. 



Head black, smooth and convex, with a minute fovea on each 

 side in front at the base of the antennse, the latter fuscous black 

 with two joints at the base testaceous, palpi testaceous, with the 

 penultimate joint fuscous black. Thorax subquadrate, broad, 

 the width rather greater than the length, sides rounded, nar- 

 rowed behind, but the posterior angles rounded and very slightly 

 elevated, disk very convex, smooth and shining, ferruginous red, 

 immaculate, the dorsal line faint and met in front by a curved 

 transverse stria, base with a moderately deep fovea on each side, 

 close to the posterior margin. Elytra wider than the thorax, 



