38 ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ELAPHRUS. 



searched for, that they were the least expected to produce 

 novelties. 



The purport of my present communication is to make known 

 to your readers two Carabidae that may well be included amongst 

 unexpected discoveries ; they are Elaphri, presented to me by 

 the learned author of the Principles of Geology, to whose 

 munificence I am so greatly indebted for many of my most 

 valuable acquisitions. They were accompanied with the fol- 

 lowing observations: — "The Elaphri were taken, during the 

 first fortnight in June, 1831, on the north-west side of Catlaw, 

 a mountain in Forfarshire, on a spot nearly 2,000 feet above 

 the level of the sea, crawling on a soft green plot of bog-moss, 

 on a sunshiny day. The Carabus nitens was found at the 

 same time and place." 



The Latin characters I shall give from Dejean, as they will 

 distinguish them from all other species ; and the English 

 descriptions from my own specimens. 



Elaphrus, Fab. Curtis s Brit. Ent. fol. 179. 



Sp. 1. Elaph. splendidus. Escli. " Viridi-ceneus, punctatissimus, 



thorace capite latiore, f route tJioraceque foveolatis,elytris costis sub- 



elevatis csneis nitidis interribptis, maculisque cyaneo-viridibus ocel- 



latis quadrupUci serie, tibiis tarsisque nigro-cyaneis." — Dejean's 



IcoNOGRAPHiE, Tom. II. p. 139, pi. 86, f. 1. 



Length 4 lines. Bright green, variegated with brilliant copper : 



antennae brightest at the base : head and thorax coarsely punctured, 



uniting into lines on the crown of the former, the latter scarcely 



broader than the head, with a simple Y-shaped impression on the 



back : elytra elongate, ovate, with twenty green foveae on each, 



blueish in the centre, and forming four longitudinal lines, connected 



by narrow shining spaces, scarcely raised, but two towards the 



apex highly polished. 



Sp, 2. Elaph. Lapponicus. Gyll. " Oblongus, cupreo-ceneus, capite 

 thoraceque punctatissimis, subfoveolatis, elytris parce punctulatis, 

 maculisque ccerulescentibus ocellatis obsoletis impressis quadrupUci 

 serie."— Dej. Icon. Tom. II. p. 131. pi. 86. f. 2. 



Length 4 1 lines. Copper colour: antennae chalybeous, except 

 at the base : head and thorax punctured as in Elaph. splendidus, but 

 the latter is broader, with a small deep fovea on each side the back : 

 the sides slightly green : elytra similar to the last, but rather broader 

 behind : the foveoc very shallow, and dull lilac. 



