64' MANDIBULATA.— COLEOPTERA. 



throughout the kingdom, during the summer months, beneath 

 stones, dry leaves, &c., and often found on quickset hedges during 

 the day. The Rev. F, W. Hope informs me that he observed 

 it in prodigious numbers in the cave of Caraetacus, on the Caradoc, 

 Shropshire, in 1825. 



Sp. 2. fulvibarbis. Atro-casruleus, ore, antennis pedibusque rufis, elytris punciato- 



striatis. (Long. corp. 3 — 3|- lin.) 

 Le. fulvibarbis. Hoffmanseg-g. — Curtis, iv. pi. 176. — Steph. Catal. No. 90. 



A trifle elongated, rather convex : mouth, antennae, and legs ferruginous-red : 

 head, thorax, and elytra deep bluish black or violaceous, sometimes virescent ; 

 the thorax convex, deeply punctured at the anterior margin and the base, 

 with a deep longitudinal channel, and much attenuated at the base : the elytra 

 with nine punctate striae, the sutural one abbreviated, the marginal pimctured : 

 body beneath piceous. 



Discovered many years since in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh 

 by the late R. Rawlins, Esq., and by Dr. Leach named in re- 

 membrance of him. It, however, has recently been described by 

 De Jean by the name I have adopted, in conformity with the usual 

 custom of employing that which is first published with characters ; 

 though if it be the rufibarbis of Fabricius, with which it agrees, 

 except in having rufous instead of black mandibles, the name above 

 used must be changed. It has been subsequently taken in plenty 

 in Kensington-gardens ; also near Netley, Salop, Ipswich, Car- 

 lisle, Battersea-fields, and Glanville's Wootton, Dorsets. ; and 

 my friend the Rev. L. Jenyns, F. L. S., &c. informs me, that it is 

 abundant throughout the year, especially in the winter and spring, 

 at Bottisham, Cambs. 



Sp. 3. montanus. Plate V. F. 5. — Cceruleus, margine laterali thoracis, ore, 

 antermis pedibusque rujis. (Long. corp. 3^ lin.) 



Le. montanus. Bale MSS.— Steph. Catal. No. 91. 



Similar to the preceding, but known at once by its more elongate structure, and 

 especially by the form of the thorax : its upper surface is fine blue tinted with 

 greenish on the head and thorax : the head is narrower, and the eyes less 

 prominent than in Le. fulvibarbis : the thorax is narrower, more depressed 

 and elongated ; it is divided by an impressed longitudinal line, the disc on 

 each side being smooth: in front of the impression is a triangular space 

 thickly sprinkled with impressed dots, and a similar space covered with im- 

 pressed dots behind ; the margin is also punctated, and the sides are rufo- 

 ferruginous : the elytra are blue, with eight striae composed of impressed 

 dots ; and in the specimens which I have examined, they are destitute of any 

 impressions between the third and fourth striae : the mouth, antennae, and 

 legs are rufo-fcrruginous, the latter duslcy at the tips of the femora : beneath 

 pitchy-bliKs with the plurse and sides of the abdomen deeply punctate. 



