160 CARABID^E. STENOLOPHUS. 



but rather wider. It is very nearly allied to S. brunnipes, Sturm 

 (a species of which no British example has hitherto occurred), but 

 it is broader, paler, less convex, the base of the thorax depressed, 

 and the basal fovese are entirely smooth and impunctate, cha- 

 racters which appear to disconnect them. The specimen from 

 which I have taken my description is however a ? . It was 

 captured near London, probably at Plumstead, by Mr. F. Smith 

 of the British Museum, who kindly gave it to me. It was re- 

 turned to me from Paris as a species of Stenolophus unknown 

 there. 



9. S. flavicollis : oblongus, capite nigro, thorace rufo-testaceo, 



lato subquadrato, postice utrinquefoveolato, angulis posticis 

 subrotundatis ; elytris striatis, fusco-testaceis subcyaneis, 

 margine suturdque rufo-testaceis ; antennarum basi pedibus- 

 que testaceis. 



Trechus flavicollis, Sturm, D.F. 6. 87. pi. 151. 



Stenolophus Jtavicollis,~E t richson, Kafer, 63. Heer, Faun. Helv. 



117. Redt. Faun. Aust. 103. 

 Acupalpus nigriceps, Dej. Spec. 4. 453 ; Icon. 4. 267. pi. 200. 



Oblong, broad. Head black and convex, with the usual small 

 fovese in front ; mandibles, palpi and basal joint of the antennse 

 testaceous, apex of the mandibles, penultimate joint of the palpi 

 and the rest of the antennae brownish. Thorax reddish testaceous, 

 subquadrate, broad (PI. II. f. 5), a little rounded at the sides, 

 scarcely narrowed behind, posterior angles rather rounded, but 

 not elevated, disk moderately convex, smooth, with a faint dorsal 

 line intersected by a fine transverse impression in front, base 

 with a neatly sculptured fovea near each angle. Elytra pitchy 

 red, or reddish testaceous, with an obscure cloud on each, the 

 suture always paler testaceous, broader than the thorax, not 

 narrowed in front, but with the shoulders wide and rounded, 

 sides almost parallel, disk convex and finely striated; legs pale 

 testaceous. Length 1 \ line. 



This insect is entirely distinct from T. flavicollis, Steph., which 

 belongs to the next species. The thorax is much wider and not 

 narrowed behind as in that insect, the elytra are also wider and 

 more parallel and not at all contracted in front. It was first 

 captured in England by Mr. Dale several years ago, who obtained 

 two specimens from the neighbourhood of Lymington. I secured 

 a fine series in a marshy piece of ground near Shanklin and 

 Luccombe in the Isle of Wight in the months of April and May 

 1847-48. 



10. S. luridus : oblongus; capite fusco-testacco, thorace testaceo, 



