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(60) 9. * Harpalus stephensii. Stephens'" Harpalus: 



H. (Stephensii) ater, nitidissimus ; antennis ferrugineis ,- prothorace nigro-aneo ; anyulis rotundatis ; elytris aneis subsulcatis 



apice transversis integris ; pedibus piceis. 

 Stephens' Harpalus, very black, very glossy ; antennae ferruginous ; prothorax black-bronzed with rounded angles ; elytra 



bronzed, rather deeply furrowed, transverse and entire at the apex ; legs piceous. 



Length of the body 4^, lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black and very glossy. Head very smooth with the usual frontal impressions ; antenna; 

 rufous with the basilar joints darker ; palpi rufous : prothorax black-bronzed, shaped like that of the 

 antecedent species, obsoletely channelled, at the base punctured on each side, but without any im- 

 pressions : elytra bronzed, brilliant, furrowed with impunctured furrows ; punctiform impressions as 

 in H. rotundicollis ; apex transverse, entire, with the external apical angle rounded: legs piceous, 

 hands rufous, posterior trochanters very large. 



ii Hygradephaga. 

 a Acutipalpia. 



a QUADRIMANA. 



This Section consists of the littoral or subaquatic Adephaga. It may be di- 

 vided, with one anomaly, into three minor sections distinguished by their palpi, 

 which may be denominated — 1, Acutipalpia, 2, Subulipalpia, and 3, Filipalpia. 

 Amongst these we seem to have a representative, in miniature, of many of the 

 Geadephagous tribes and genera. — Thus, e.g. Elaphrus represents Cicindela; Opis- 

 thius or Bembidium, Calosoma; Not iophilus, in some sort, Carabus ; Catascopius 

 and Pseudomorpha 9 the Truncipennia ; Stenolophus the Harpalidce ; Isopleurus the 

 Cystopodous Dimana ; and Lopha perhaps the Bipartita. Probably further inves- 

 tigation may make it evident, that Argutor also belongs to this subtribe. 



9 Linn. Trans, xiv, 94, t. iii, f i, and 98, t. iii, /. 3. 



