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HABPALUS FRCELICHI, Stpem {TARDUS, Pz.) : AN ADDITION 

 TO THE BRITISH LIST. 



BY E. A. NEWBERT. 



This interesting addition to our list was taken in some small 

 numbers by Mr. Claude Morley and Mr. Ernest Elliott on the 4th and 

 29th of May last, beneath stones and logs on what Mr. Morley calls 

 " Foxhall Plateau," a barren wind-swept field just a mile from 

 Martlesham Heath and four miles from Ipswich. The locality appears 

 to be a good one for GaraMdce, Mr. Morley having taken as many as 

 13 species of Amara there. 



S. Froelichi, Sturm, is regarded by M. Bedel and other conti- 

 nental authorities as the true tardus, Pz., the species standing as tardus 

 in our lists and collections being called rufimanus, Marsh. It is very 

 probable we shall have to make this correction. 



H. FroelicM, by its short broad form, thorax not narrowed behind, and shining 

 black colour, is very nearly allied to S. serripes, Quens.,and among British ^arpaZj 

 can only be mistaken for that species or rufimanus, Marsh, {tardus, Brit. Cat.). It 

 may readily be separated fi'om both by the characters given by Bedel. I have made 

 uee of these in the following table : — 



A. Posterior femora having numerous setigerous punctures on the internal margin. 



Thorax strongly transverse, form short, broad and convex, antennae short, 



yellow-red, elytra nearly as shining in $ as in ^ R. FroelicM, Sturm. 



{tardus, Pz.). 



B. Posterior femora having from 3 to 8 punctures. 



I. Antennae and palpi having the middle joints spotted with black, form broad 



and convex, elytra nearly as shining in $ as in (J ...H. serripes, Quens. 



II. Antennae and palpi entirely yellow-red, form narrower and but little convex, 



$ shining, !^ dull H. rufimanus, M.&iesh.. 



tardus, Brit. Cat. 



With regard to these setigerous punctures, they are by no means 

 confined to the posterior femora ; all the femora and the intercoxal 

 prominence being much more hairy than in the two allied species. 

 Fauconnet, in his tables, gives 12 to 14 as the number on the femora 

 of Froelichi, and 3 to 4 in serripes and rufimanus. The latter hardly 

 appears to be correct, but is worth mentioning as an approximation. 



British insects are usually carded, and it is therefore as well to 

 mention that in FroBlicM the thorax is remarkably short and broad, 

 being almost double as broad as long, with its sides narrowed from the 

 base to the apex and not rounded, as in the two allied species. 



The size is about that of average rufimanus (tardus, Brit. Cat.). 



12, Churchill Road, N.W. : 



February 'IXst, 1898. 



