HARPALIDjE. — EPAPHIUS. 173 



Elongate : head black : thorax brown, suborbicular cordate, truncate behind, 

 with a dorsal and transverse impression : elytra pale brown, tinged laterally 

 with yellowish, and internally rather bluish ; striated, the stria^ simple, with 

 three impressed dots on the disc : legs, palpi, and antenna pale brownish- 

 yellow- 



" Taken in June last, under rejectamenta, at Broughton, Lan- 

 cashire."" — Mr. Curtis. 



Sp. 5. consputus. Plate IX. f. 6. — Niger, antennarum basi pedibusque pallidis, 

 elytris substriatis testaceis, maculd subcommuni fused. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Ca. consputus. Duftschmid. — Bl. consputus. Steph. Catal. p. 35. No. 337. 



Body beneath and head black : thorax generally pale rusty-red, with a strong 

 dorsal line, having an impression posteriorly, the base greatly depressed be- 

 hind, with a deep impunctate fovea on each side : elytra testaceous, moderately 



. striated, with a longitudinal brown or black patch, glossed with violaceous, 

 on each, separated by the suture, which is more or less testaceous : legs pale 

 testaceous yellow : basal joints of the antennae the same, the rest brownish. 



Var. 0. With the disc of the thorax entirely pitchy ferruginous, and the patch on 

 the elytra more powerful. 



" Taken rather plentifully in a gravel-pit near Windsor." — 

 J. H. Grieshach, Esq. ; who presented me with specimens. " Bat- 

 tersea-fields and Old Brompton, sparingly, in May last." — Mr. 

 Waterhouse. " Copenhagen-fields." — A. Cooper, Esq. 



Genus LXII. — Epaphius, Leach. 



Palpi, maxillary with the terminal joint longer than the preceding, conic-acute ; 

 labial with the two last joints nearly equal in length : labrum short, transverse, 

 arcuate: mandibles shghtly elongate, bent, acute: mentum with its anterior 

 edge emarginate, the emargination with a simple tooth. Antennce with the 

 basal joint large, naked : head large, triangular : eyes small : thorax trans- 

 verse, cordate, convex, rounded behind, remote from the elytra; the latter 

 oval, broad, rounded at the apex : wings none : anterior tarsi of the male 

 with two dilated joints. 



This singular genus is readily distinguished from the two pre- 

 ceding and the following genera by its nearly orbicular cordate 

 thorax and dilated elytra; it also differs in the form and proportions 

 of the palpi, the absence of wings, and by the structure of the 

 mentum. The only indigenous species inhabits the coasts, beneath 

 rejectamenta. 



Sp. 1. Secahs. Feri~ugineus nitidus, thorace nitidissimo, elytris disco interiore 



punctato-striatis, pedibus pallidis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 Ca. Secalis. Paylml.—Ep. Secahs. Steph. Catal. p. 35. No. 338. 

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