HARPALID/E. BROSCUS. Ill 



Var. /3. With the femora and tibiae rufous. This is the true Ca. maclidus of 

 Fabriciusj which he captured near Richmond, during one of his visits to Eng- 

 land. But Paykul, Sturm, and other continental writers, refer very different 

 insects to the Fabrician species, each differing from the other. Var. a, is the 

 Molops concinnus of Sturm ; and I have a large specimen (taken in Cumber- 

 land) which agrees with Duftschmidt's Ca. arrogans. 



There is a singular variety in the British Museum, having the elytra transversely 

 wrinkled throughout ; the Ha. crenulatus of Dr. Leach. 



Common throughout the country. 



Sp. 2. aethiops. Aterrimus subopacus, thorace postice utrinque foveolato, elytris 

 profundi striatis ; stria secundd a margine jmndis remotis notatd. — (Long, 

 corp. 5^ — 6 lin.) 



Ca. sethiops. Panzer. — St. aethiops. S'eph. Catal. p. 94. No. 197. — St. con- 

 cinnus. Curtis, iv. pi. 171. 



Deep jet black : head impunctate, with two impressions on the forehead : thorax 

 cordate, orbicular, a little sinuated posteriorly, with a deep longitudinal channel 

 in the centre, obsoletely wrinkled transversely, with a round punctate fovea 

 on each side : elytra deeply striated, the striae impunctate, with two or three 

 minute impressions between the second and third from the suture, and 

 a series of remote dots on the margin : body beneath impunctate : legs and 

 antennae black ; the tips of the latter fuscous, and those of the palpi, and 

 sometimes of the mandibles, pitchy-red or ferruginous. 



Unquestionably the Ca. aethiops of Panzer ; and as decidedly not the Molops 

 concinnus of Sturm, nor of any other writer, whose admirable figure not only 

 correctly represents St. madidus, but whose description manifestly disagrees 

 with the present species, exclusively of the important difference in size; 

 Sturm's insect being seven German lines in length, equal to about eight 

 EngUsh ; whereas St. aethiops (and I have examined upwards of 30 speci- 

 mens) never exceeds six lines. 



Found in the mountainous districts of the north of England and 

 of Scotland ; apparently not uncommon in the former. 1 have a 

 memorandum of its having been captured near Godstone, by W. S. 

 MaeLeay, Esq., some years since. 



Genus XLVI. — Broscus, Panzer. 



Palpi; external maxillary with the last joint cylindric, truncate, much shorter 

 than the second ; the third still shorter, narrow at the base, incrassated at the 

 tip : labial with the third joint elongate clavate, the terminal obconic trun- 

 cate: labrum transverse, entire: viandihJes striated, with a tooth in the 

 middle of their internal edge: mentum rounded at the sides, deeply notched, 

 with a simple obtuse lobe in the centre of the notch. Antenna; with the four 

 basal joints naked, the third much larger than the fourth, and abruptly clavate : 

 head broad, suborbicular : thorax subcordate, much narrowed behind : elytra 

 oblong: wivirs two: anterior tarsi of the males with three dilated joints. 

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