Scientific Transactions Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... Labrador is slightly larger and is nearly black, and has the reticulation of the surface not so dense. Northern Europe and Siberia; Eastern Siberia; Labmdor, (Sweden; Finland, to 69, Sahlberg Germany, ' Siberia, Kantaika, Angara). 849. 792. Dysticus fuliginosus, F ab., I lybius fuliginosus, llLC.--Ovalis, fere angustus, sat convexus, subnitidus, rufo-testaceus, supra eeneus, capite thoracisque lateribus plus minusve ferrugineis, elytris late testaceo-marginatis, margine ante apicem obsoletescente; supra densius subtiliusque reticulatus; coxis posterioribus parcius obsoletiusque strigosulis, margine anteriore breviter et minus abrupte deflexo. Long. 10, lat. 5 m.m. The male has the basal joints of the front and middle tarsi a good deal incrassate, and furnished beneath with long hairs, bearing narrow palettes; the claws of the front feet are moderately elongate, and but little curved. the posterior one being rather broadly emarginate near the base; on the hind feet, the outer claw differs from the inner very little, except that it is considerably shorter; the last ventral segment has the apical portion covered with long though not very deep rugae, and has a short carina in the middle: the female has a large emargination at the apex of this segment, and in the middle a coarse prominence or short fold. The species varies a good deal in size; and the yellow colour of the under surface and lateral margin of the elytra seems easily stained of a darker colour by decomposition of the contents of the body. Europe; North America; (Sweden; Finland to 64, Sahlherg; Britain, France, Germany). 851. 793. Ilybius meridionalis, Aube, M.C.--Ovalis, haud angustus, sat convexus, subnitidus, subtus piece-ferrugineus, supra aeneus, capite anterius, .