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father faint "and irapunctate, with one or more impressed dots between the 

 second and third from the suture ; the lateral margin with a series of impres- 

 sions at the tip, and of a pale colour : suture pale towards the apex, rather 

 dusky at the base : shoulders with a large pale subquadrate patch : legs pale : 

 palpi pale, with fuscous rings : antennae fuscous in the middle, the base and 

 apex pale : the margin of the thorax, both laterally and posteriorly, is some- 

 times entirely pale. 

 It is probably the Badister humeraUs of BonelU and De Jean ; the Ba. sodalis 



of Sturm is seemingly different. 

 "Taken near Carhsle, in March, 1828."— T. C Her/sham, Esq.; who kindly 

 transmitted me a pair, which arrived safely, through the medium of a letter ; 

 and subsequently other specimens accompanied by the following information. 

 " Apparently extremely local, having yet only met with the insect on a woody 

 bank near CarUsle : most plentiful in February and March ; in the beginning 

 of the latter month, this year, I took several at the roots and on the beds 

 of trees (generally the ash), under moss, in company with Badister bipus- 

 tulatus, which is a common insect in this neighbourhood." "Earls' Court, 

 near Brompton, 1st instant." — Mr. Waterhouse. 



Sp. 2. Tkimorphus confinis. Plate IX. f 5.—Piceo-niger, thoracis margine 

 laterali pallida, elytris fuscescentibus macula subquadratu humerali pedibusque 

 pallidis. (Long. corp. if — 2 lin.) 



Trimorphus confinis. Steph. Catal. Appendix. 



Very similar to the last, but differs in being rather more slender in proportion, 

 considerably less, and of a paler colour ; it is of a pitchy-black : head without 

 the two frontal impressions : thorax as in the foregoing, the basal and lateral 

 margins broadly pale : elytra pale dusky, with a quadrate pale spot at the 

 shoulders : the suture and margin sHghtly paUid ; rather faintly striated, the 

 striae impunctate, the margin with a series of impressions : legs pale : antennae 

 fuscous, paler at the base and tip : palpi pale, ringed with dusky. 



Var. ;6. fig. 5. With the thorax dusky ferruginous, the margins broadly pale, the 

 elytra pale dusky testaceous, rather clouded, with a caerulescent tint towards 

 the apex, the humeral spot deficient. 



Five specimens only of this insect have come beneath my observation ; two of 

 them I found in a grassy bank in Battersea-fields in May, 1816, and one be- 

 neath some stones near Darenth in July, 1921; the rest are in the British 

 Museum ; one taken in Norfolk, the other at " Loch Awe, Scotland." — Dr. 

 Leach. 



Obs. By a communication from Mr. Heysham, dated 26th May last, I have 

 every reason to suppose that he captured, on that day, on a common near 

 Carlisle, a specimen of Badister peltatus lUiger (which no doubt belongs to 

 this genus); but unfortunately the specimen which accompanied the notice 

 was lost during its transit, and the necessity for this sheet being immediately 

 printed off precludes the possibility of ascertaining the truth of my suspicions. 



Page 76. Epomis circumscriptus. "In meadows, Netley." — Rev. F. W. Hope. 

 Mr. Haworth has an indigenous specimen of this insect. 

 Mandibulata, Vol. I. 30th June, 1828. a a 



