The dissections were made from a male of B . bipustulatus 
Fab., which it is necessary to mention because they do not 
quite agree with those of Sturm in his pretty Deutschlands 
Fauna , pi. 75, which he represents to be taken from the same 
species as our own ; but from the form of the thorax at fig. A, 
it does not appear to be the insect which in this country is 
considered to be the Fabrician species : the trophi in the 
above plate approach much nearer to those of Licinus than 
our dissections do, in which the bilobed labrum, the dif- 
ferently formed mentum, the terminal joint of the labial as 
well as the maxillary palpi at once afford strong and distinctive 
characters. Badister may also be distinguished from Licinus 
by the rounded apex of the elytra, and the males are known 
by the three dilated joints of the anterior tarsi. 
All the species hitherto noticed are European, and de- 
scribed in a beautiful work entitled “Species general des 
Coleopteres de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean ” — of these 
at present we can find but two preserved in the cabinets of 
this country. 
Badister bipustulatus Fab. Ent. Syst . t. 1, pars 1 , p. 161, 
n. 164. — Don. Brit. Ins . v. 15, pi. 516. — Panz. 
Faun. Germ. 16. 3. 
Found under stones from April to October, and is not un- 
common. — Its thorax is represented at fig. 9, the better to 
enable the student to distinguish it from the following. 
Badister cephalotes. 
A very rare insect in this country, which has never before 
been figured. Mr. Kirby’s specimen was taken by himself 
14 or 15 years ago at Wittersham in Kent, and obligingly 
communicated with the MS. name of “ megacephalus,” 
which we should have adopted had it not been described in 
the work before cited. Our specimen was taken at Darent in 
the same county. This species is readily distinguished from 
the others by its large head, the lunular spot near the apex 
of the elytra, and the shape of the thorax. 
The plant is Ajuga reptans (Common Bugle). 
