HARPALIDiE. — SOGINES. Ill 



row: body beneath smooth jet black, Avith the breast alone punctate: the 

 thorax beneath sometimes bronzed-black or greenish : legs, labrum, mouth, 

 and palpi black : antennae dusky, the two basal joints rufescent, with the carina 

 dusky or black. 

 Upon a recent examination of upwards of five hundred specimens of this ex- 

 tremely variable and splendid insect, both alive and dead, I am perfectly 

 satisfied of its distinction from Poe. cupreus ; it is more depressed and oblong, 

 usually much smaller ; the head and the thorax beneath are impunctate, and 

 the upper surface is peculiarly glossy and brilliant ; but exclusively of these 

 obvious distinctions of form, size, sculpture, and lustre, all the varieties may 

 be readily known from those of Pee. cupreus by the colour of the two basal 

 joints of the antennae, which have invariably a dusky or black Une above, 

 whereas those of Pee. cupreus are usually immaculate, a fact of considerable 

 importance in a genus so prone to vary ; yet it is said that this insect " is pro- 

 bably nothing more than a small variety of Poe. cupreus," although " species 

 ought to be distinguished by form, sculpture, and disposition of colour." 



Common throughout Britain ; I have received it abundantly from 

 Scotland, the north of England, and Wales, have seen many spe- 

 cimens from Ireland, and it is found in profusion in the metropolitan 

 district. 



Sp. 6. punctatostriatus. Oblongus, capite laevissivio, antennarumarticulis duobus 

 basalibus riifis carina atrd, tertio piceo-rufo, elytris profunda punctalo-striatis. 

 (Long. corp. 4.3 lin.) 



Poe. punctatostriatus mihi. — Steph. Catal. p. 23. No. 184. 



Closely allied to the last, but more elongate, and the striae on the elytra deeply and 

 strongly punctate : the head, and the thorax beneath impunctate ; the thorax 

 itself is rather elongate, and strongly wrinkled transversely with a few longi- 

 tudinal Avrinkles at the base, which is obsoletely punctate, and has two foveae 

 at the hinder angles on each side : the elytra are sHghtly convex, striated, the 

 striae deeply and thickly punctate ; the interstices smooth, with about four im- 

 pressed dots on the third from the suture, of which three are nearly at the tip, 

 the other about the middle of the disc, the second from the margin with a series 

 of dots, rather remote in the middle : body beneath black, the breast punctate : 

 antennae with the two basal joints dull red, with the carina dusky, the third 

 joint pitchy red, the remainder fuscous. 



Taken near London : it may eventually prove to be an extraor- 

 dinary variety of Poe. versicolor. 



Genus XLIII. — Sogines, Leach. 



Palpi robust, the terminal joint of the external maxiUary obtusely truncated, 

 and longer than the thh-d, which is clavate : labrum very narrow, transverse, 

 obsoletely emarginate: 7namlibles stout, rather obtuse, striated above. An- 

 tenna compressed, the third and fourth joints longer than the rest, the former 



