CARABID.E. STENOLOPHUS. 157 



the shoulders rounded, sides nearly straight, slightly emarginate 

 before the apex, testaceous, having a blue-black or cyaneous 

 patch spread over each behind the middle, only leaving the apex, 

 the exterior margins and the suture narrowly edged with testa- 

 ceous, disk convex, striated, the striae impunctate; body beneath 

 black, legs reddish testaceous, femora rather obscure. Length 

 2 lines. 



This species is for the first time introduced into the British 

 fauna on the authority of two specimens captured by the Rev. 

 H. Clark, in the Isle of Sheppey, between Sheerness and Queen- 

 borough, in May 1853. 



** Tarsi antici maris articulo penultimo leviter emarginato, cordato. 



5. S. consputus : elongatus, niger ; thorace rufo-piceo, cordato, 

 postice utrinque foveolato, angulis posticis rectis; elytris 

 testaceis, striatis, plaga oblonga nigro-pice ; antennarum 

 basi pedibus abdominisque apice flavis. 



Carabus consputus, Dufts. Faun. 2. 148. 



Trechus consputus, Sturm, D. F. 6. 71. pi. 149. Steph. Mand. 



1. 173, et Manual, p. 49. 



Acupalpus consputus, Dej. Spec. 4. 443 ; Icon. 4. 258. pi. 199. 

 Stenolophus consputus, Erichson, Kafer, 61. Heer, Faun. 



Helv. 116. Redt. Faun. Aust. 102. 



Elongate, rather narrow. Head black, with two deep fovese 

 between the eyes ; mouth, palpi and two joints at the base of the 

 antennae testaceous, the rest fuscous black. Thorax pitchy red, 

 very little wider than the head, slightly rounded below the 

 anterior angles, much contracted behind, posterior angles right 

 angles, disk very convex, base with a deep fovea on each side. 

 Elytra oblong, rather straight in front, with the humeral angles 

 only a little rounded and elevated, sides somewhat parallel, disk 

 convex and deeply striated, yellowish testaceous, having a large 

 oblong bluish-black patch behind, extending more or less upwards 

 but leaving the margins and suture always pale ; underside of 

 the body black, apex of the abdomen and legs pale testaceous. 

 Length 2 lines. 



This species may be readily distinguished from its allies by its 

 more elongate and narrow form, by its cordate thorax, which is 

 likewise obliquely contracted behind and has distinct right angles; 

 and by the long parallel- sided elytra, which are of a paler colour 

 and have merely an oblong dark patch behind. 



An individual of this species (with one of Bembidium littorale) is 

 placed in the Fabrician collection, as Erichson has informed us, under 



