164 MANDIBULATAj — coleoptera. 



Sp. 13. pubescens. Pallide-ferrugineus punctatissimus, capitis thoracisque medio, 

 elytrorum maculd communi posticd ahdomineque nigro-piceis. (Long. corp. 

 2f-3l lin.) 



Ca. pubescens. Paykul. — Trecbus pubescens. Steph. Catal. p. 34. No. 321. 



A variable insect, generally pale ferruginous : head thickly punctate, with a 

 longitudinal black line : thorax slightly convex, thickly and deeply punctate, 

 with a faint dorsal line, and on each side at the base a rather deep fovea, the 

 centre frequently with a longitudinal black hue : elytra a little convex, faintly 

 striated, the striae obsoletely punctate, the interstices thickly and deeply punc- 

 tate, the disc posteriorly with a large common black patch, in certain lights 

 tinged with blue : breast and abdomen pitchy-black, thickly punctate : legs 

 ferruginous : hinder thighs sometimes pitchy at the base : antennae rufescent 

 at the base, rusty-brown at the tip. 

 Var. /3. Steph. Catal. I. c. Rather larger, with the upper surface entirely fer- 

 ruginous. 

 Var. y. Steph. Catal. I. c. With the disc of the thorax entirely black ; the suture 



ferruginous. 

 Var. I. Steph. Catal. I. c. With the upper surface pitchy-ferruginous, beneath 



paler, the head rufous. 

 There are many other varieties, scarcely two specimens occurring precisely similar 



in their markings. 

 This insect has hitherto been placed in English cabinets at the head of the genus 

 Trechus, but the evidently truncate palpi, and the pubescent and punctate 

 body, sufficiently remove it therefrom, and render it congenerous with the 

 Ophoni, with which it is associated by the continental writers, and, like several 

 of the species of that genus, it is mostly found on the coast. 



Apparently a littoral insect, taken occasionally near Gravesend, 

 and on the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk. " Beneath rejectamenta 

 at Southend." — Rev. F. W. Hope. " On the shores of the Tees." 

 — L. Rudd, Esq. " Near Swansea." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 14. germanus. Plate IX. f. 1. — Niger, capite, pedihus elytrisque testaceis, 

 elijtris apice thoraceque violaceis. (Long. corp. 4 — 4^ lin,) 



Ca. germanus. Linne. — Op. germanus. Curtis, iv. pi. 191. — Steph. Catal. p. 33. 

 No. 307. 



Very pubescent; black: the head testaceous, thickly and finely punctulate: 

 thorax blue-black, with an abbreviated dorsal Une ; the disc rather depressed, 

 thickly and finely punctulated throughout, with an elongate fovea on each side 

 at the base : elytra pale testaceous, with a patch of violet at the apex, striated, 

 the striae impunctate, the interstices very finely and thickly punctulated : an- 

 tennae, legs, and palpi testaceous. 



" Near Kingsbridge in Devonshire." — Dr. Leach. To whom I 

 am indebted for a fine series of specimens taken as above by the 

 late Mr. Cranch, in June 1816. 



