HARPALIN/E 291 



pubescent; prothorax fully two-fifths wider than long, widest at 

 apical third, the sides there moderately rounded, thence sensibly 

 convergent and straighter to the very broadly rounded basal angles; 

 apex sinuato-truncate, rather wider than the base; surface smooth, 

 rugulose toward the sides and base, the anterior transverse impression 

 rather sharp and distinct; fovese very feeble, broadly sublinear, 

 finely and rather closely punctate; elytra nearly one-half longer than 

 wide, a fifth wider than the prothorax, parallel, with broadly arcuate 

 sides and very obtusely ogival apex, the sinus short and subobsolete; 

 striae strong and groove-like, the scutellar rather long; intervals 

 nearly flat, the striae and intervals not differing much apically; 

 discal puncture at apical fourth or fifth; lateral line of foveae widely 

 interrupted medially; hind tarsi short, thick basally, the first three 

 joints decreasing gradually and very slowly in length, the fifth 

 nearly as long as the first two combined. Length (cf 9 ) 7.0-8.0 

 mm.; width 2.8-3.0 mm. Delaware and Indiana 'to Texas (El 

 Paso). [Carabus lineola Fabr. and C. furcata Fabr. (a variety with 

 immaculate pronotum)] lineola Fabr. 



Form less stout than in lineola and much more shining; coloration similar, 

 except that the entire front and occiput are black, excepting a pale 

 region near the eyes and a rounded pale spot at the middle of the 

 occiput and that the elytral vittae are only very briefly bifurcate 

 anteriorly, but differing especially in having all the black areas of 

 the upper surface strongly metallic greenish in lustre and not pure 

 black and without trace of coloration as they are in lineola; head 

 three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, with still larger and more 

 prominent eyes, these being separated across the vertex by only 

 four times their own width; antennae nearly similar; prothorax less 

 than a third wider than long, the sides less converging posteriorly, 

 the basal angles much less broadly rounded; base broadly arcuate 

 and fully as wide as the sinuato-truncate apex; surface nearly similar, 

 the median stria even more excessively fine; elytra scarcely one-half 

 longer than wide, fully two-fifths wider than the prothorax, the 

 sides rounding behind to the ogival apex from just behind the middle 

 and not in apical third as in the preceding, the sinus more nearly 

 obsolete; striae finer, the scutellar extremely short and almost 

 obsolete; intervals flat, the discal puncture at apical fourth; hind 

 tarsi nearly similar. Length ( 9 ) 6.5 mm. ; width 2.7 mm. Louisiana 

 (Alexandria) binotatus n. sp. 



Form and coloration somewhat as in lineola but with the prothorax nearly 

 quadrate, the hind angles obtuse but only slightly rounded, the sides 

 less rounded than in lineola; head black behind the eyes and with a 

 rounded occipital pale spot; elytra with two dark stripes as in 

 lineola; scutellar stria long. Length 8 mm. California and Nevada. 



maculatus Lee. 



3 Upper surface black, with greenish or bronzy lustre, the sides of the 

 pronotum sometimes abruptly pale, the sides of the elytra more or 

 less broadly and nubilously, and the suture, testaceous; under surface 

 deep black, the hypomera, epipleura and legs pale testaceous. Head 

 nearly three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, with very prominent 



