Volume 8, Plate II / Entomology (Insects)

Pentamera

1. Carabus auratus. About an inch long, green glossed with golden yellow above, the head faintly punctured with reddish mouthparts and lower antennal joints, the thorax marked like the head with a central line. The oval convex elytra each bear three elevated ridges with granulated spaces between, the under parts black, the legs rust-red; common throughout France where it is called le Jardinier, but rare further north and among the rarest British beetles.
2. Carabus clath­ratus. About an inch long, of an oblong-ovate form and broader than most of its genus, dark brassy in varying shades with head and thorax faintly punctured. Each elytron has three elevated lines and a triple series of deep golden-yellow or copper excavations, the under side and legs black; once thought among the rarest British species, it is now found copiously in the Western and Northern Highlands of Scotland.
3. Tefflus Megerlei. Seldom much short of two inches long, entirely uniform glossy black except the yellowish eyes, with a roughly punctured thorax approaching a hexagonal form and slightly elevated margins. The elongate-oval, very convex elytra each bear seven longitudinal ridges uniting at the tip, with rows of small tubercles in the intervening furrows; it inhabits Senegal and the coast of Guinea.