SAMOUELLE'S 



body beneath and legs black, shining and slightly 

 hairy. 



We met with two specimens of this rare and in- 

 teresting insect many years since, in a gravel pit, 

 at the top of Robin Hood Lane, Coombc Wood, in 

 the month of May. Mr. Stephens has since met 

 with it very plentifully, in July, under clods of earth 

 and stones, in a corn-field near Hertford. 



Sp. 2. Pa. crux-major. Black, elytra red, with 

 a large black cross, the apex black. 



Carabus crux-major. Linne. 



Panagaeus crux-major. Latr. Leach. Sam. 

 Stephens. (26. 1. B.j 



Length from 3j to 4 lines. 



Head black and punctured, thorax rounder than 

 in quadripustulatus, punctured and more closely co- 

 vered with tawny hair, elytra also broader than in 

 the above, with the red spots considerably larger, 

 or the black less predominant, striated and punc- 

 tured : body beneath and legs black. 



This insect is rare near London ; but the late Mr. 

 James Bydder found three specimens, some years 

 since, at the root of an oak, in the month of March, 

 on the road to Epping. Our specimens were fur- 

 nished by the Rev. L. Jennings, who found them 

 beneath the bark and at the roots of willows in the 

 spring months near Cambridge. 



