HARPALID^. — HARPALUS* 157 



Sp. 48. subcaeruleus. Brevis, latus, nitidus, supra piceo-ccBruleus Out violuceus, 

 elytrorum apice subdentato. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin.) 



Ha. subcjeruleus. Kirby MSS. — Steph. Catal. p. 32. Ah. 295. 



Also mucli allied to Ha. aeneus, but differs in being generally of a rich deep 

 black or pitchy-blue, sometimes tinged with violet and sometimes a httle 

 brassy; it is rather shorter and broader in proportion : the thorax is less punc- 

 tate behind, and the foveae near the posterior angles less evident : the elytra 

 are rather more strongly striated, and the strije have very obsolete punctations 

 at the bottom, the two exterior interstices are thicldy punctate : the antennae 

 and legs pitchy or testaceous. 



Taken occasionally near London. " Southend." — Rev. F. W. 

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



B. With the hinder angles of the thorax acute. 



Sp. 49. caffer ? Piceo-niger, subtus pallidior, antennis, pedibus margineque laterali 

 thoracis rufis, elytris tenue striatis. (Long. corp. 5 Un.) 



Ca. caffer. Duftschmid. — Ha. caffer. Steph. Catal. p. 32. Ko. 29 G. 



Pitchy-black, inchning to castaneous, beneath paler : antennae, palpi, and legs 

 rufous : mandibles the same, tipped with blackish : thorax smooth, quadrate, 

 the lateral margins more or less rufo-ferruginoug ; dorsal channel faint^ the 

 base with a broad band of punctures, the posterior angles with a deep rugose 

 fovea in the punctured band : elytra smoothly and faintly striated, the striae 

 impunctate, the margin with a series of impressions at the tip, and a few at 

 the base. 



I have three specimens of this insect, one of which was in the Marshamian Col- 

 lection, the other two I obtained from that of my late friend J. M. Griffin, 

 Esq., by the name of Ha. nitidulus : it appears to agree with the Ca. caffer of 

 Duftschmid, but Gyllenhal considers his insect synonymous with Ha. tardus • 

 the acute posterior angles of the thorax, however, well distinguish it from that 

 species. 



Found I believe near Norwich. 



Sp. 50. binotatus. Niger, antemianim basi punctisqve duobus frontalibus rufis, 



elytris nudis profunda striatis, inter stitiis impunctatis. (Long. corp. 44 5i 



lin.) 



Ca. binotatus. Fabricius. — Ha. binotatus. Steph. Catal. p. 32. No. 297. 



Black : head obsoletely wrinkled, usually with two rufous spots on the forehead, 

 which are sometimes united, and occasionally obliterated : thorax above some- 

 what depressed, black, the disc obsoletely wrinkled, with a dorsal channel, the 

 lateral and posterior margins more depressed and thickly punctate, the punc- 

 tation rugged, near the angles are two slight fovete, one on either side : elytra 

 sUghtly convex, rather deeply striated, the stritu impunctate, the interstices 

 convex and impunctate, the lateral one with an interrupted series of impres- 

 sions: legs generally pitchy-black, with the tarsi and claws rufescent: an- 

 tennae deep fuscous, with the basal joint rufous : palpi rufescent. 



Var. ^. With, the legs entirely rufo-testaceous. 



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