' ' on the elytra or wingrcovers. I t inhabits both ttte high and low
land, but chiefly the north-eastern quarter of the Island, where it
may be detected, generally in pairs, under stones, or sometimes' in
broad daylight walking across a' roadway, in the neighbourhood of
Rupert’s Valley or Longwood. Mr. ‘Wollaston says: “ I t seems to
belong to the same type as the African, species senegalense and
ni.gosum, from the former of which it is nevertheless abundantly
distinct! From the latter it. differs {inter alia) in being more
depressed, and in having its coppery punctures smaller, in its prothorax
being more deeply rugose before and behind, and in its legs
being less robust.’^ This creature emits a most unpleasant odour
when taken in the hand, and is frequently, covered with very small1
parasitic insects. .
*C. helense Ho p e A Beetle very like, the last species in
t intakes sad perhaps more generally
1?. complanatus, Dej.—A glossy black Beetle, rather more than
half an inch in length, inhabiting the high land of the central parts
of the Island; found under stones, fallen trunks of trees, &c. Mr,
Wollaston writes of it th u s : “ I t is a species of Mediterranean
latitudes—occurring in Portugal, Spain, the South of France, Italy,
Sardinia, Sicily, Egypt, Barbary, &c. I t is abundant, also (in the
Azores, Madeiras/and Canaries, and has been reported' even from
Chili.”"- .
Bembidium, Auct.
*B. mellissii, Woll.—A tery beautiful Milk? light-brown Beetle,
one-sixth of an inch in length, taken from the high land, of which
Mr Wollaston writes that “ it feekmgs to the same group as the
’ European B. varum- and jhmmiatnm.. I t i# well distinguished by
its dull brassy-green head and pnvUiprax, and lurid-testaceous elytra--
the latter of which are ornamented with a number of darker fasciae
and cloudy patches, forming (on each e ly tro n )a large sub-apical
blotch, a postmedial zigzag (or1 deeply dentate) - fascia, and two
juarish antemedial spots placed in an oblique-direction (from the
shoulder) on the fore disk.. The elytra! striae art* coarsely and
closely punctured, or crenate, and there are tw® large punctiform
impressions on the third interval from the suture.
J.C.Melliss, dd|
I HÂPLOTHORAX BURCHELL1I. J>J37. 4?.: SC10B1US SUKtTOPOSUS- p . 755.
2. C-AI.0 SOMA H A II6 S ÏA ............ fi 137. 5 . CSDOÏTIA. ITOATA p. 159.
3. MELLISSITJS ADUMBHATUS p. 745. 6 . .TASITHBA PULCHBA p.2K
L.Reeve & C° Laridcm.
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