harpalid.t:. — harpalus. 147 



Robust, subconvex, deep shining pitchy-black ; above rich green : head smooth, 

 the front tranversely rugged, with two deep rugose impressions, and a few 

 longitudinal ruga; close to the base of the labrum : thorax bright green, with 

 a few longitudinal wrinkles in front, and towards the posterior extremity of 

 the dorsal line (which is rather faint) some transverse ones ; the base ruggedly 

 punctate, with a deep rugose fovea on each side at the base towards the hinder 

 angles : elytra slightly coriaceous, of a beautiful rich green, with the suture 

 brownish-brass ; rather strongly striated, the strine subpunctate, the abbre- 

 viated one longer than usual ; the disc with an impression towards the apex 

 of the second elongate stria, and the margin with several towards the tip : 

 legs pitchy-black : the ciha and claws rufescent : antennae and palpi pitchy- 

 ferruginous, the latter dusky at the base. 



This beautiful and conspicuous insect stands unique in my 

 cabinet ; it was captured near London, on the shores of the Thames, 

 some years since. 



Sp. 17. rubripes. Latior, niger, supra nigro-ccBrulescens, aut virescens, thorace 

 postice utrinque foveolii obsoletd punctuJata, antennis, palpis, pedibufigue rubro- 

 testaceis, elytrorum interstitio tertio a margine punctis plurimis impresso. 

 (Long. corp. 4| — 5^ lin.) 



Ca. rubripes. Gyllenhal. — Ha. rubripes. Steph. Catal. p. 30. No. 264<. 



Broad, black : head glossy, tinged with bluish or greenish : thorax the same, 

 obsoletely wrinkled anteriorly, punctulated towards the base, with a moderate 

 dorsal channel; the base on each side with an obsolete punctate fovea, the 

 margins black : elytra bluish or greenish, striated, the striae impunctate, with 

 five or six impressed dots at the apex of the third interstice from the r irgin, 

 one on the second from the suture, and the margin itself irregularly punctate : 

 legs, antennae, and palpi testaceous-red. 



Var. (S. Ha. cyanopterus. Kirby MSS. — Steph. Catal. p. 30. No. ^66. 



Rather less and narrower, with the elytra of a rich blue, and the suture brownish. 



This insect varies much in colour and size, and I conceive that it and the three 

 following species are far too closely alUed to each other to be truly distinct, 

 though, as they have been separated by others, I shall not, without sufficient 

 evidence, reunite them : they all agree in having several impressions at the 

 apex of the seventh interstice, or third from the margin of the elytra ; but that 

 character is rather diagnostic of a section than of a species, as nearly all the 

 insects of this division possess them more or less evidently. 



Taken occasionally in gravel-pits, and near London, at Coombe, 

 Darenth, Hertford, Ripley, &c. " Not uncommonly at Southend." 

 — Rev. F. W. Hope. " Near Ipswich." — Rev. W. Kirhy. 



Sp. 18. azureus. Sub-elongatus, niger, supra ci/aneo-niger, antennis, palpis, 

 pedibusque rufis, elytris interstitio tertio a jnargine punctis tribus obsoletis 

 i7npresso. (Long. corp. 5 lin.) 



Ha. azureus. Stvrm.—Steph. Catal. p. 30. A'c. 265. 



