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the disc,, which is tinged with a sombre hue towards the shoulders ; the 

 elytra are punctate-striated, the striae brown: body beneath brassy-black, 

 tinged with blue on the head and thorax ; legs pitchy-brown glossed with 

 bluish : antennas pitchy, with the basal joint brownish-red. 



I obtained a single specimen of this insect from the Marshamian 

 cabinet; it is the only one that I have as yet seen. 



Sp. 4. bifasciatus. Mneo aid viridi-niger , elytris punctato-striatis, ceneo-fuscis, 

 fasciis duabus irregularibus griseo-Jlavis, pedibus ceneo-piceis , tibiis pal- 

 lidioribus. (Long. corp. 2 — 2§ lin.) 



No. bifasciatus. Leach, MSS. — No. semipunctatus. Steph. Catal. p. 39. No. 377. 



Head and thorax of a brassy or greenish-black, the former with two obsolete 

 frontal sulci ; the latter convex, with a faint dorsal line, and a deep impunc- 

 tate fovea on each side at the base ; elytra punctate-striated, with two or three 

 impressed dots on the disc, of a brassy-brown, with two irregular transverse 

 bands of griseous-yellow spots, one near the base, the other towards the apex, 

 the apex itself pitchy-brown : the body beneath pitchy or brassy-black : legs 

 pitchy-brass, with the tibiae and tarsi brassy-brown: palpi and antennas 

 dusky, the latter with the base rufescent. 



This species varies much in colour, and I suspect that the Carabus semipunc- 

 tatus of Donovan, v. xi. pi. 367. f. 2. is referable to one of the varieties. 



Not uncommon in several parts of the country. u Copenhagen- 

 fields."— Mr. Ingpen. " Paddington, by the canal ; Netley, Salop; 

 Isle of Sheppey, and Deal, in June last, abundantly." — Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. " Near Mary stow and Woodland, Devon ; and Swansea, 

 Glamorganshire." — Dr. Leach. " Under rejectamenta, banks of 

 the Thames, Plaistow marshes, and in Copenhagen-fields." — A. 

 Cooper, Esq. 



Sp. 5. obliquus. Splendide ceneo-virescens, elytris ienue punctato-siriatis, fasciis 

 duabus maculisque aliquot sparsis Jlavesceniibus, antennis pedibusque nigro- 

 aneis. (Long. corp. 2 — 2\ lin.) 



Be. obliquus. Sturm. — No. obliquus. Steph. Catal. p. 39. No. 378. 



Closely allied to the last, but of a more brilliant hue ; the maculations on the 

 elytra differently disposed, &c. : it is of a brilliant glossy brassy-green • the 

 head, with the usual sulci, rather shallow : the thorax shining, smooth, with the 

 dorsal line faint, and two deep, rather obsoletely rugose, impressions at the 

 base, one on each side : elytra bright brassy-green, finely punctate-striated, the 

 disc with several scattered yellowish spots, and two distinct irregular trans- 

 verse fasciae, one towards the base, the other near the tip, the latter imma- 

 culate : body beneath, and legs, brassy-black ; the tibiae and tarsi piceous. 



Found on the shores of the Thames and Severn, near their union 



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