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joints. Mr. Donisthorpe has seen the insect, which is now in the 

 possession of Mr. Dawson's son, and considers it bears out Mr, Rye's 

 remarks. 



HARP ALUS, Latreille. 



H. griseus, Panz., must be omitted from the British list : I know 

 of no authentic specimen. 



The insect formerly introduced as H. luteicornis by Saunders, 

 appears to be the female of H. tardus, Panz. (r. Brit. Col. i. 52). 



H. latus, var, erythrocephalus, F. Syst. El. i. 197. This 

 variety diflers from the type-form in having the head and mandibles of 

 a dark red colour. The red side-border of the thorax is also more 

 marked, the colour being continued round the margins of the elytra : 

 the scutellum also is reddish. It was recorded by Mr. E. A. Newbery 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxv. (2 Ser. x.) 1S90, 159) as having been taken in 

 numbers by j\[r. W. E. Sharp under flood refuse on the banks of the 

 river Lleidr, Dolwyddelen, Carnai-vonshire. The examples of Carabus 

 eri/throcephalus, F. referred to by Dawson (Geod. Brit. 146) as varieties 

 of S. fulvij)es must probably be referred to this insect. This 

 variety has also been taken on Lazonby Fell, Cumberland (Britten), 

 Snowdon (Sopp &: Tomlin), Nethy Bridge, Scotland (Beare ct Donis- 

 thorpe), and in Co. Antrim, Ii-eland (Tomlin). 



H. froelichi, Sturm., Devitsch. Ins., iv. 117, 67. {H. tardus, 

 Panz., Faun. Germ., 37,24.) Allied toll. tor(:Z2'.s, G^dl., but distinguished 

 by its shorter thorax, which is narrower in front, and by the broader 

 and somewhat more convex elytra. Black, with the antennae and palpi 

 yellowish-red. Thorax almost twice as broad as long, with the antei-ior 

 margin very shallowly emarginate, the scarcely pronounced front angles 

 bluntly rounded, and the posterior angles right angles ; the elyti'a are 

 scarcely a third longer than their breadth taken together, broader than 

 the thorax, strongly striate, with the interstices somewhat convex ; the 

 femora and tibiae are brownish black and the tarsi reddish. L. 71- 

 SJ mm. Neighbourhood of Ipswich. 



The species was introduced as British by Mr. E. A. Newbery, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xxxiv. (2 Ser. ix.) 84, on specimens taken by Mr. Claude 

 Morley and Mr. Ernest Elliott, in May 1898, under stones and logs on 

 " Foxhall plateau," a barren wind-swept field just a mile from Martle- 

 sham Heath and four miles from Ipswich ; eighty specimens were taken 

 from May 4, 1897, to August 7, 1899, after which date Mr. Morley 

 considered it to have disappeared {v. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxvii. (2 Ser. xii.) 

 61) ; in April 1903, however, Mr. Morley again took it in the same 

 locality, and Mr. Beaumont obtained three or four specimens in May 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxix. (2 Ser. xiv.) 205). 



H. fra'lichi, by its short, broad, convex form, and thorax not nar- 

 rowed behind, is chiefly allied to H. serripes, Quens ; it is the H. tardus 

 of Panzer, and the species standing as 3. tardus in our collections must 

 be referred to H. rujimanus, Marsham (Ent. Brit. 441 22) ; if the 



