51- MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



deep pui-plO;, or brassy-copper : elytra rather broader than the thorax, ovate, 

 slightly convex above, generally of a brown-brass, writh the margin purplish- 

 copper or greenish, and on each a triple series of impressed dots, which in 

 some specimens are bright aeneous ; the rest of the elytra is irregularly punc- 

 tate, the puncta sometimes disposed longitudinally : the body beneath is 

 shining black : the legs black : the four basal joints of the antennfe glabrous 

 and black,- the rest pubescent and brownish. 



This species varies very much in colour, some specimens having the elytra 

 greenish, with the margin brassy-green, concolorous, or purphsh ; others 

 have the elytra and thorax cupreous, with brighter margins ; others again 

 are nearly black above. 



Common in the south of England, beneath stones, dead leaves, &c. 

 B Elytra sulcated. 



Sp. 14. clathratus. Ohlongws subconvexus supra ceneo-virescens, elytris lineis 

 trihus elevatis, interjectis foveis aureis triplici serie. (Long. corp. 11 — 13 

 lin.) 



Ca. clathratus. LinnL — Don, xv. fl. 526. Jig. sup. — Steph. Cafal. IVo. 74. 



Distinguished at first sight by three rows of deeply impressed foveae on each 

 elytron : head glossy-black, with an elongate impression on each side near the 

 eyes : thorax quadrangular, transverse, a little notched anteriorly, and shghtly 

 emarginate posteriorly, the hinder angles rounded : the disc brassy-black, 

 rather convex, slightly, but thickly punctulated, with a deep longitudinal 

 groove, and a large bilobate impression on each side, towards the posterior 

 angles : elytra elongate, convex above, greenish or brownish-brass ; each with 

 three equidistant elevated ribs, the inner one at the suture, the interstices 

 finely granulated, and adorned with a single row of round, deeply impressed, 

 shining golden-coppery foveje : on the margin is a row of smaller impressions 

 of a copper colour : the body beneath is shining black, with the sides a little 

 punctate : the legs black : the four basal joints of the antennae the same and 

 glabrous, the remainder pubescent and brownish. 



Var. &. The upper surface of the insect deep virescent, with cupreous foveae. 



The first indigenous specimen of this striking and elegant insect 

 was taken by Mr. Hawortli at Halvergate, in Norfolk, in the year 

 1809; subsequently to that period others were taken there, and 

 it was afterwards found by Mr. MacLeay at Caithness (the most 

 northern part of Scotland) ; it is also found in the island of Co- 

 lunsa ; and by the entomologists of Dublin in great plenty on the 

 coast of Ireland : I am indebted to the Rev. J. Bulwer, F. L. S., &c. 

 for a beautiful series of the insect captured near the Irish metro- 

 polis. 



J Sp. 15. auronitens. Ohlongo-ovatus, supra aureo-viridis, antennarum basi 

 pcdihnsqiie rubris, elytris costis tribus nigro~violaceis, interstitiis scahris. 

 (Long. Corp. 10 lin.) 



