HARPALID^. — CALATHUS. 99 



the male, rather opaque in the female ; very delicately striated, the strife 

 impunctate, with two or three impressed dots between the second and third 

 from the suture, and a series on the margin : abdomen glossy pitchy-red : 

 legs pale, reddish. 



One of the commonest of the Harpalldse, occurring in every 

 hedgCj and beneath every heap of stones, not only throughout the 

 metropolitan district, but elsewhere. 



Sp. 3. Cisteloides. Niger, elytris obsoletissime punctato-striatis, striis tribus 



disci punctis majoribus ornatis. (Long. corp. 4 — 65 lin.) 

 Car. Cisteloides. Illiger. — Cal. Cisteloides. Steph. Catal. p. 20. No. 156. 



Head smooth glossy black, with an obsolete impression between the eyes : thorax 

 rather depressed, very obsoletely wrinkled transversely, shining black, with 

 a slight dorsal channel, and an obsolete subpunctate fovea on each side at 

 the base, the base itself rather thickly punctate : elytra slightly convex and 

 striated, the striae very obsoletely punctate, with several impressed dots 

 towards the apex of the second from the suture, about an equal number at 

 the base of the third, eight or ten on the fifth, frequently interrupted in the 

 middle, and a marginal series : body beneath pitchy-black : legs ferruginous, 

 tarsi pitchy : antennae with the basal joint rufous, the following pitchy, the 

 rest dusky. 



Var. jS. With the legs and antennae dull pitchy-black. 



This is likewise very abundant near London and elsewhere, and 

 is usually found in damp hedges. 



X Sp. 4. latus. Niger, antennis pedibusque piceis, elytris punctato- sir iatis, striis 



duabus punctis majoribus impressis. (Long. corp. 6 lin.) 

 Cal. latus. De Jean. — Curtis, iv. pi. 184. — Steph. Catal. p. 20. No. 157. 



Known from the other indigenous species by its great width and superior size : 

 head black, smooth, a little rugose between the antennae : thorax black, trans- 

 versely wrinkled, with a dorsal channel and a fovea on each side at the base, 

 which is rather thickly punctured : elytra deep black, broad in the middle, 

 rather convex, striated, the striae punctated, the third and fifth with several 

 deeper punctations, and the marginal one with a continuous series of deeper 

 impressions : the body beneath, and legs, pitchy-black : palpi and antennae 

 rufescent. 



The lateral margins of the thorax are sometimes ferruginous. 



The only indigenous specimens I have seen of this insect are in 

 the collection at the British Museum; they were taken by Dr. 

 Leach in Devonshire during the spring of 1826. 



Sp. 5. crocopus. Niger, nitidus, antennis, thoracis lateribus pedibusque rujo- 



Jlavis, elytris striatis disco hipunctatis. (Long. corp. 3^ — 5 lin.) 

 Cal. crocopus. Hoffmannsegg. — Steph. Catal. p. 20. No. 158. 



