130 
NEW BRITISH COLEOPTERA SINCE 1839. 
notice the present insect, which, notwithstanding the 
softness of its elytra, when first taken, afford perhaps 
sufficient evidence of its having undergone at least its | 
final metamorphosis in Great Britain, can surely 
have no claim to admission into the lists of our indi* I 
genous species. 
125. Cardiophorus formosus, Curtis; Ann.Nat. Hist., 
vol. v. p. 278(1840), described; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 2nd I 
ser. vol. iii. p. 15, tab. ii. fig. 6 (1854), described . 
Observation .—Probably only a variety of C\ sexpunc • | 
tatus , an exceedingly variable species, to which Mr. 
Curtis indicates its near relationship ; it is not Cor • 
diophorus ornatus , Dej. 
126. Cardiophorus testaceus, F.; A. R. Hogan, Zoo!., 
p. 4197 (1854). 
127. Aplotarsus maritimus, Curtis ; Ann. Nat. Hist., 
vol. v. p. 277 (1840), described; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1 
2nd ser. vol. iii. p. 15, tab. ii. fig. 5 (1854), described; Hardy ; 
and Bold, Cat. Col. Northumberland and Durham, p ^ , 
(1851). 
Observation . — This is probably a true Cardiophorus, 
but it is certainly not congeneric with the insects 1 
placed by Mr. Stephens in his Genus Aplotarsus . 
128. Ampedus tristis, L. ; Weaver, Proc. Ent. Soc. j 
Lond., 2nd May, 1853; Zook, p. 3921 (1853); Murray; Cat. j 
Scot. Col., p. 135 (1853), Elater” 
129. Ampedus suBCARiNATus,Germar; Zeitschrift fiirdie I 
Entomologie, vol. v. p. 177, no. 39 (1844); Amjiedus 0' j 
alls , Dej. Cat.; Curtis, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 2nd ser. 
vol. iii. p. 16, tab. ii. fig. 7, described; “ Aplotarsus? c0 ' 
thurnatus , Curtis.” 
130. Ampedus lugens, Redtenbacher, Dissert. Ina u S' 
Yindob. (1842), “ Elater;” Germar, Zeitschrift, f. d. Ento®-> | 
vol. v. p. 177, no. 40 (1844) ; Ampedus anthracinus, W’ j 
