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cimeiis only were preserved : four in the collection at the British 

 Museum, one in that of the late Mr. Swainson, and two in that of 

 Mr. Curtis; one of the latter, as well as one of those in the 

 Museum, M^as taken at Dover, — the other of Mr. Curtis's, near 

 Chelsea or Fulham, in August 1826. On the 18th August last, Mr, 

 Cooper found one slowly crawling on the mud in Brunswick-square, 

 London ; and at the end of the same month many specimens were 

 captured near Dorking, in company with L. depressus, by Messrs. 

 Chant and Waterhouse, the former of whom supplied me with a 

 pair. 



Genus XXIX. — Epomis, Bonelli. 



Palpi with the terminal joint elongate^ compressed, securiform, obliquely trun- 

 cate: labrum transverse, slightly notched: mandibles short, slightly bent: 

 mentum with an anterior emargination, having a bifid tooth in the middle. 

 Antennas filiform : head nearly triangular, slightly narrowed behind : thorax 

 truncate-cordate: males with the three basal joints of the anterior tarsi 

 dilated. 



Bonelli proposed this genus; which is distinguished from the 

 following by the elongate securiform terminal joint of the palpi, 



Genus XXVIII. — Remeus, Latreille. 



Palpi with the last joint elongate, subovate, truncate : labrum very deeply 

 notched : viandibles short, bent, acute : mentum small, no tooth in the centre : 

 antenncE short, filiform : head triangular : thorax nearly heart-shaped, rather 

 narrower than the elytra : elytra elongate : legs moderate : anterior tarsi of 

 males with three dilated joints. 



Sp. 1. impressus. Niger, elytris obsolete stfiatis, thorace bast utrinque im- 

 presso. (Long. corp. lOlin.) 



Ca. impressus. Fabricius. — Re. impressus. Steph. Catal. No. 103. 



Black, small, not punctate : thorax anteriorly narrowed, posteriorly nearly as 

 broad as the elytra, rounded at the sides, with a faint stria down the middle, 

 and a deep longitudinal impression on each side near the hinder angle : the 

 base a trifle notched in the middle, the hinder angles obliquely truncate : 

 elytra striated, the strise parallel, not punctate, and no abbreviated stria near 

 the scutellum (so general in the Harpalidse) ; the spaces between a little 

 convex, smooth ; the external stria is carried round to the inner apex of the 

 elytra ; and an elevated line accompanies it, to which all the strise are pro- 

 longed, without being united to each other : body beneath and legs black. 



How to account for the introduction of this large insect into our Fauna I am 

 at a loss to conjecture ; it is a native of India, and is the Ca. inaequalis of 

 Marsham, from whose cabinet I obtained one specimen^ and another is in the 

 collection of the Rev. W. Kirby. 



