HARPALIDiE. — CHL^NIUS. 79 



tips of the tibiae and tarsi fuscous: palpi ochraceous, with the tips of the 

 joints dusky : basal joint of antennae ochraceous red, the remainder dusky. 



Of this elegant insect I have also seen but one specimen, which 

 was taken at the same time and place with the preceding, in company 

 with Ch. nigricornis and holosericeus : it is readily distinguished 

 from either of the foregoing by its more elongate and depressed 

 make, and by the prolongation of the tip of the elytra. 



Obs. I recommend the lovers of fine specimens to set them while recent, if 

 possible, as some colours are so evanescent that the slightest moisture destroys 

 them. Since the drawing of this lovely insect was executed, I relaxed the 

 specimen with the greatest care ; the result was the almost total destruction 

 of the vivid ultramarine tint with which the insect was adorned. 



Sp. 6. Agrorum. Plate V. f. 6. — Viridis, thorace elytrisque subtilissinie g7-a- 

 nulatis, elytris striatis, margine, antennarum, basi pedibusque flavis. (Long, 

 corp. 5i lin.) 



Ca. Agrorum. Olivia:— Ch.. Agrorum. Steph. Catal. No. 110. 



Fine green above : head a little rugose : thorax thickly dotted with yellowish 

 down, and closely punctulate, or shagreened: a slight channel down the middle, 

 and a longitudinal impression on each side between it and the hinder angle : 

 scuteUum sometimes yellowish : elytra a little broader than the thorax, rather 

 obsoletely striated; the interstices finely granulated, the exterior margin 

 yellow : beneath, the thorax and breast are greenish-bronze, the abdomen 

 dusky, with a broad pale yellow margin : labrum, palpi, legs, and three basal 

 joints of the antennae pale yellow ; the terminal joints of the antennae brownish. 



This pretty and conspicuous insect stands in the British Museum 

 cabinet by the name of Epomis festivus, and in Samouelle's Ento- 

 mologist's Compendium its habitat is given under the appellation of 

 E. cinctus ; and although it was placed in the Museum collection 

 upwards of eleven years since, it is still unrecorded as an indigenous 

 species. The specimens in question (as well as two which Dr. 

 Leach kindly presented to me) were taken in the vicinity of Ply- 

 mouth in the spring of 1816 : the insect has also been found near 

 Bristol. 



B. With the thorax attenuated behind. 



Sp. 7. vestitus. Viridi-eeneus, elytris punctato-striatis creberrimu granulatis, 

 litnbo postice latiori sinuato, antennarum hasi pedibusque Jlavis. (Long corp. 

 5—5^ lin.) 



Ca. vestitus. Fabricius. — Ch. vestitus. Steph. Catal. N'o. HI. 



Above brassy-green : head and thorax shining, the former obsoletely wrinkled ; 

 the latter punctate, slightly pubescent, with a distinct longitudinal channel, 



