ORDER COLEOPTERA. \ 239 



the pelophila of M, Dejean. {Carahus Borealis, Fab. Ne- 

 bria borealis, Gyll. Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. LXXV. 8.) 



In another the first four articulations of the anterior tarsi 

 of the males are slightly dilated, these are the Blethisa of 

 the same. {Carabus multipunctatus, Fab. Panz. ibid. XI. 5.) 



The others have the corslet at least as long as broad, con- 

 vex, and in the form of a truncated heart. The body is 

 proportionally more convex than in the preceding. The first 

 four articulations of the anterior tarsi are slightly dilated in 

 the males. These composed exclusively his genus Ela- 



PHRUS. 



C. uliginosus, Fab. .'* elaphrus riparius, Oliv. Col. II. 

 34, I. i. A. E. is about four lines in length, of a blackish 

 bronze, very much punctuated, with impressions or small 

 fassets on the forehead and corslet, and others with a violet 

 ground, raised in their contour, and joined one to another on 

 the elytra. The tarsi are of a blueish black, but the legs are 

 sometimes of this colour, and sometimes reddish. These last 

 individuals have been considered as belonging to a peculiar 

 species (Cupreus), by M. M. Megerle and the Count 

 Dejean. It is very rare in the environs of Paris, but com- 

 mon in the other parts of France, in Germany, Sweden, &c. 



Cicindela riparia, Lin. Elaphrus riparius. Fab. Clairv. 

 Entom. Helvet. II. xxv. A. a. Elaphrus paludosus^ Oliv. Col. 

 II. 34, 1, 4, a. b. Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. xx. 1. About 

 one-third smaller than the preceding, very finely punctuated, 

 and of a dull copper, mingled with green above, with circu- 

 lar impressions, nipple formed at the centre, green, disposed 

 in four lines, and a coppery spot polished and shining near 

 the section on each elytrum. Common in the environs of 

 Paris. {See for the other species the second volume of the 

 species of Count Dejean, p. 268, et seq.) 



Sometimes the labrum is almost semicircular and rounded 

 in front, the external palpi are terminated by a suboval arti- 



