HAlirALID.li. BADISTER. "71 



Jt>iere taken during that and the following month. In July, 1822, 

 I found it in abundance beneath stones and clods of earth in a corn- 

 field near Hertford ; but I have subsequently sought for it there in 

 vain. It has been found by the Rev. F. W. Hope at Southend. 



Sp. 2. crux-major. Ater, elt/tris riijis, hasi, suturd,J'ascid inediCi apiceque nigris 

 (Long. Corp. 3^ — 4 lin.) 



Ca. crux-major. Linne.—Don, v. xiv. />/. 477,/. 2.— Pa. crux-major. Stepk. 

 Caial. IVo. 96. 



At once distinguished from the last-described insect by its superior breadth and 

 the form of the thorax : it is rather larger, deep black ; thorax pubescent, 

 transversely ovate, deeply punctulated, with a more obvious impression near 

 the basal angle than in Pa. quadripustulatus : elytra also pubescent, coarsely 

 punctate-striate, rufous, with the base, suture, a transverse bar in the mid- 

 dle, and the apex black : body beneath, and legs, black and pubescent. 



Var. /3. With the central fascia on the elytra interrupted. 



Var. y. With the elytra rufous anteriorly, with a triangular spot at the base, 

 the suture and the posterior half black ; the latter with a large round rufous 

 spot, as in Pa. quadrimaculatus. 



Occasionally found near London, about Shooter's-hill, Norvi^ood, 

 Cobham, &c. and on the northern verge of the metropolis itself. 

 It appears to be more common in the fenny counties of Cambridge 

 and Huntingdonshire, occurring beneath stones and at the roots of 

 trees near large sheets of water. The Rev. L. Jenyns takes it 

 beneath the bark and at the roots of willow-trees, in February and 

 March, in Cow-fen, near Cambridge, and at Bottisham : it has also 

 been taken by Mr. Hanson at Lawrence Waltham, in Berkshire. 



Genus XXVL — Badister, Clairville, 



Palpi moderately long, the last joint elongate-ovate, somewhat acute at the tip *; 

 labrum short, narrow, deeply notched : mandibles short, rounded, very ob- 

 tuse, and slightly notched at the tip: mentum very narrow, deeply emar- 

 ginate, without a central tooth : head rounded, anteriorly depressed, and a 

 little notched: antennce filiform: ei/es slightly prominent: thu}'ax mbre or 

 less heart-shaped, deeply notched in front and behind : cli//ra entire : wings 

 two : anterior tarsi of the male with three dilated joints, the basal somewhat 

 trapeziform, the others quadrate. 



Sufficiently known from Licinus by the l)ilobed labrum, ovate 

 terminal joint of the palpi, and lively colouring ; and from the other 

 Harpalid^ by the obtuseness of its mandibles. The species usually 



* See observation, page 69. 



