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AMARA. 



Amara, Bonelli, Obs. Entom. i. tabl. synopt. (1809) ; Zimmerniann, GistFs Faunus, i. ; Putzeys, 



Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, 1856, p. 174. 



Putzeys enumerated forty-two species (including the section Tricena) as belonging to 









the restricted genus Amara. Like Celia, it is a group nearly confined to the north 









temperate zone in both hemispheres, extending into the tropics, as far as at present 

 known, only on the North-American continent. 



1. Amara sallsBi 





Amara Sallei, Putzeys, loc. cit. p. 185 l 



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Hab. Mexico \ Jacale, Orizaba (Salle), Las Vigas (Edge). 



Similar to Celia mexieana, being distinguishable in the female only by the thorax being 





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middle* the 



ole (which in most 





Amarae originates at the base in a conspicuous foveole) being here simple, as in all th 



Mexican and Central- American Celioe. The male, however, has the generic character 

 of the restricted Amarce (pubescent inner edge of the hind tibiee) well marked. 



2. Amara sera. 





Amara sera, Say, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. iv. p. 429 (1834) l 





Hab. Mexico \ Parada (Salle), Mexico city (Flohr). 



















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Bears a strong g 

 the Salle collection 



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esemblance to Celia sallceL with which it was confounded 



but it is readily distinguishable in both sexes by 



ginating at the base 



umbilicated foveole, and by the elytral striae being mor 









deeply scored towards the apex, with corresponding narrower 

 stices. The fringe of soft hairs on the inner side of th6 male 



more convex inter- 

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A. sera ; the " longer thorax " on which he insists is a character which distinguishes it 

 from all the Mexican Celice. M. Flohr has met with it abundantly near the city of 

 Mexico. 



3. Amara azteca. (Tab. iv. fig. 3.) 



A. serce affinis, sed multo major. 2Enea, palpis antennisque nigro-fuseis, his articulis l°-3 m (et 4° basi) rufis, 















pedibus rufescenti-piceis ; thorace lato, apud basin elytris latitudine sequali, deinde usque ad apicem sat 

 fortiter arcuatim angustato, ante medium haud dilatato, fovea mediana acute insculpta, exteriore obliqua 





















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vage impressa; elytris argute, versus apieem vix profundius, striatis, interstitiis subplanis, striola 

 scutellari foveola umbilicata incipiente ; calcaribus omnibus simplicibus, fulvis. 

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Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas, Oaxaca (Hoge). 



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A fine species, closely allied to the North- American A. impuncticollis, Say. 







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