ADEPHAGA. 7 



Marginal sulcus of the prothorax becoming very narrow in front : 

 elytra shorter and less parallel, with the sides very narrowly, and rarely 

 the extreme apex, indistinctly pubescent in both sexes, the sides strongly 

 and abruptly sinuate near the apex ; size much smaller ; legs black or 

 black with the tarsi reddish [atricornis, Steph., and nigricornis, Steph., 

 1832), or entirely reddish {nemorivagus, Duft,, 1812, gilvipes, Dej., 

 1828) ........ nemorivagus, Duft. 



The type, red-legged variety, appears to be much scarcer than the 

 black-legged form, the same being the case with A. binotatus ; the 

 species lives at the roots of heather on sandy commons, and is generally 

 found in company with liar jxtlus honesties, which it much resembles; 

 it is widely distributed in Central and Northern Europe. 



PTEROSTICHUS, Erichson. 



P. cupreus, L., var. erythropus, Fald., Faun. Tr. i. 50. In this 

 variety the legs are almost entirely yellowish-red, and the third joint 

 of the antennae is also of the same colour : in the var. affinis, the femora 

 only are red or reddish, and the first two joints only of the antennse, as 

 in the type, are yellowish-red. 



P. cupreus, L., var. coerulescens, L. Some blue specimens 

 of Gujyreus were recorded as above (Irish Nat., 1903, p. 61), but 

 Ganglbauer and the last European catalogue regard oerulescens, L. as 

 the same insect as our versicolor. In the 1891 catalogue, versicolor 

 was given as a synonym of cu])reus, and aerulescens as a var, 



AMARA, Bonelli. 



A. anthobia, Villa, Col. Eur. Dupl. (Mediol. 1833), 33, 5. This 

 species is allied to A. familiar is, Duft. and A. lucida, Duft. It is a little 

 smaller than the former and distinctly, as a rule, larger than the latter, 

 which it much resembles in general appearance, and with which it has 

 been confused in our collections; from both species, however, it differs 

 in its shorter thorax which is narrower towards the base, and is smaller, 

 thus giving the insect a heavier appearance behind ; the chief difference, 

 however, lies in the very distinct prescutellaiy pore on each elytron, 

 which is umbilicate and piliferous and is attached to the base of the 

 scutellary stria ; the upper surface is more shining (especially in the 

 ordinary bronze specimens) and the legs are of a colder and more umber 

 shade of red than in either A. familiar is or A. litcida. L. 5-6| mm. 



Leighton Buzzard, Deal, Shirley, Chatham, Carshalton, King's 

 Lynn, Oxford, New Forest, Barnes Common, Burwell Fen, &c. 



This addition to our lists was introduced by the Rev. George A. 

 Crawshay (Ent. Mo. Mag. xli. (2 Ser. xvi.), 87); and he gives further 

 details in Vol. xlii. (2 Ser. xvii.), 46 ; Mr. Crawshay has carefully worked 

 out the range in size of a large number of examples of A. familiaris, 

 A. lucida, and A. anthohia, and finds it to be respectively, 5J-7J mm., 

 4|-6 mm., and 5-6| mm. 



