HARPALIDJE. — ZABRUS. 139 



tip : body beneath pitchy, the base of the abdomen ruggedly punctate : an- 

 tennae, legs, and palpi rufous. 



Occasionally found in hedges at Darenth-wood. " Frequent 

 near Southend." — Rev. F. W. Hope. " Very abundant on the 

 shores of the Tees." — L. Ruddy Esq. 



Sp. 2. aulicus. Brevior, nigro-piceus, subtus dilutior, thorace postics depresso 



punctato, utrinque histriato. (Long. corp. 5 — 6^ lin.) 

 Ca. aulicus. IlUger. — Cu. aulicus. Steph. Catal. p. 28. No. 245. 



Short, broad, pitchy-black, paler beneath : head with two deep impressions in 

 front, united by a strong transverse hne : thorax moderately convex, its sides 

 dilated anteriorly, and attenuated posteriorly; the base shghtly depressed, and 

 punctate, the punctce longitudinally rugose, the depression with two impressed 

 striae at each extremity, and terminated by an elevated hne : elytra less convex 

 tlian in the last, strongly punctate striated throughout, the margin vpith several 

 impressed dots at the base, and others irregularly approximating to each other 

 near the apex : body beneath laterally subpunctate : legs, antennae, and palpi 

 pitchy-ferruginous. 



Var. /3. With the legs very pale testaceous. 



Var. y. With the legs pitchy-black, the body dull brownish-black. 



Very common in hedges and banks near London, especially near 

 Coombe-wood and at Hertford. " In rotten trees, Ely; also in 

 cellars, Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Kimpton, near Andover." 

 —Rev. G. T. Rudd. " Banks of the Tees."— Z. Rudd, Esq. 



Genus LVI. — Zabrus, Clairville. 



Palpi; external maxillary with the terminal joint shorter than the third, ovate- 

 truncate, the third subclavate, of equal length with the second ; labial with 

 the two last joints equal, the terminal slightly fusiform, truncate : labrum 

 subquadi-ate, deeply emarginate : mandibles short, subtrigonate : maxillcB ob- 

 tuse : mentum slightly emarginate, with an obtuse simple lobe in the centre. 

 Antennai Hnear, the third and terminal joints equal in length, the fourth rather 

 shorter : head oblong, broad, elevated behind : thorax transverse subquadrate, 

 broadest behind, gibbous: elytra obsoletely emarginate at the apex: body 

 gibbous : wings two, ample : tibics dilated at the apex : anterior tarsi of the 

 males with three dilated joints. 



The remarkable convexity of the body of the Zabri well discri- 

 minates them from the other Harpalidse excepting Curtonotus ; but 

 from that genus they may be readily known by the width of the 

 thorax behind and the simple obtuse lobe in the notch of the mentum ; 

 from Harpalus they also diifer by the obtuseness of the maxillae, the 

 d<3cpcr emargination of the labrum, and the form of the palpi. 



