ELAPHRID^E. — BEMEIDIUM. 31 



with griseous pubescence ; towards the suture, on the disc, are two impressed 

 dots on each elytron, one towards the apex, the other rather before the middle : 

 body smooth, glossy, bluish-green or coppery, beneath : legs testaceous-yellow : 

 antennae pale testaceous at the base, dusky towards the apex : palpi yellowish. 



Common in banks by the sides of ponds, &c. round London. 

 " Very abundant in a gravel-pit in Kensington-gardens, in May and 

 June." — Mr. Ingpen. " Netley, Salop, and Gravesend." — Rev. 

 F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 4. pallipes. Cupreo-wneum, subpubescens, elytris viridi-irroratis subloevibus, 



antennis pedibusque pallide testaceis. (Long. corp. 2| — 3 lin.) 

 Ca. pallipes. JDuftschmid. — Be. pallipes. Steph. Catal. p. 41. No. 406. 



Coppery-brass, slightly pubescent: head depressed, thickly punctate: thorax 

 slightly convex, thickly and finely punctate, with a rather strong dorsal line, 

 the hinder angles greatly depressed: elytra rather smooth, irrorated with 

 greenish, finely and thickly punctate, and obsoletely striated on the back j 

 with two impressed dots on each between the second and third from the 

 suture: body greenish-bronze beneath: legs and antenna pale testaceous, 

 the latter rather dusky towards the apex, and with their basal joint bronzed- 

 green. 



Apparently scarce or very local : I have seen, comparatively, 

 very few specimens, most of which were caught near Cromer, in 

 Norfolk. " Cromer and Swansea." — Dr. Leach. i( Aklborough, 

 Suffolk."— Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Family VIL— ELAPHRIDJE mihi. 



Antenna? very short, stout: palpi with the last joint elongate-obconic, or stout 

 and tumid : labrum entire, slight or rounded anteriorly : mandibles simple : 

 maxilla? without an articulated claw at the apex : labial palpi with three distinct 

 joints: mentum emarginated, with a bifid central tooth: eyes large: anterior 

 tibia? not emarginated. 



The Elaphridae chiefly differ from the preceding families by the 

 brevity and stoutness of the antennae : but there are several other 

 very obvious characters which, taken collectively, sufficiently in- 

 dicate their distinction : they approximate to the Cicindelidae and 

 Carabidae by the integrity of the interior tibiae ; from the former 

 they differ by wanting an articulated claw at the tip of the maxillae, 

 and from the latter by the brevity of the antennae. 



The three following genera occur in Britain, and may be thus 

 known : 



