HARPALID/K. — TRECHUS. 16^ 



Black, beneath pitch y, rather glossy : head smooth, with a minute impression 

 - on each side : thorax smooth, with a faint dorsal channel, and a transverse 

 depression posteriorly, terminating at each end in a smaU punctate fovea : 

 elytra black, rather strongly striated, the striae obsoletely punctate, the inter- 

 stices somewhat convex : the marginal stria with a few impressions towards 

 the apex : legs, palpi, and antennae pale fulvous, the latter dusky towards 

 the apex. 



Taken in corn-fields near Hertford, in July, and " in Devon- 

 sliire." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 7. fulvus. Piceo-fulvus, antennis pedibusque pallidioribus, elytris striatis, 



striis impundatis. (Long. corp. 2 — 2^ lin.) 

 Ca. fulvus. Marsham. — Tr. fulvus. Steph. Catal. p. 34. JVo. 323. 



Rather less than the last, and paler: of a deep pitchy-fulvous: head as in Tr. 

 pallipes : thorax of a glossy rusty- rufous, the disc smooth, with a faint dorsal 

 channel; an obsolete impressed thickly punctate stria near the apex, and a 

 large coarsely punctate fovea on each side at the base : elytra rather obsoletely 

 striated, the striae impunctate; the interstices slightly convex, the margin 

 with a series of impressions at the apex, and four or five at the base : legs 

 testaceous : antennae rather fulvous, with the apex a little dusky. 



Var. /3. With the thorax very rugose, and much wrinkled transversely. 



Common near London ; in sand-pits, at Hampstead ; gravel-pits, 

 Coombe, near Ripley, Southend, &c. 



Sp. 8. pallidus. Corpore toto pallide testaceo, antennis pedibusque dilutioribus, 

 oculis nigris. (Long. corp. 2 — 2^ lin.) 



Tr. paUidus mihi. Steph. Catal. p. 34. No. 324. 



Allied to the two last ; entirely of a pale testaceous, with the suture and margins 

 of the elytra paler : the antennae and legs still paler, the former a little dusky 

 at the apex, and the eyes deep black : the thorax is slightly tinted with fvdvous, 

 and punctate behind, and the elytra are a Uttle clouded with dusky. Pro- 

 bably a mere variety from immaturity of the foregoing, taken in company 

 with it, but apparently mature. It appears to be the Tr. Verbasci of Sturm. 



Taken near Ripley, in June and July. 



B. Body more or less depressed. 



a. Thorax transverse, the sides rounded, the posterior angles slightly acute. 

 Sp. 9. minutus. Nigro-piceus, nitidus, antennis pedibusque ferrugincis, elytris 



castaneis, striis qiiatuor vel quinque dorsalibus impunctatis (Long. corp. 



li— Iflin.) 

 Ca. minutus. Fahricins. — Tr. minutus. Steph. Catal. p. 35. No. 329. 

 Depressed, glossy, pitchy-black, or ferruginous: head sometimes black, with a 



deep pjcuated impression on each side, terminating rather behind the eyes : 



thorax with the angles obtuse, slightly convex, the disc pitchy-ferruginous. 



