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F .\.MILY II.- 



LIRABIRSC. 



ir,:t (040). AMARA EXARATA Dej., Spec., Ill, lS2s. r,o:>. 



Oblong-oval, robust, very convex. Blackish-piceous, shining: antenna- 

 and legs reddish-brown, the former as long as the head and thorax. Thorax 

 subquadrate, about one-half wider than long, basal impressions brnad. 

 double, punctured; hind angles small, acute, very obtusely carinate. Elytra 

 slightly wider than thorax, the strhe deep, closely punctured. Length 

 S-lOruru. (Fig. 04.) 



Throughout the State; common. Hibernates. January 13-Xo- 

 vember 1 1 . 



Via. 64. > 3}. lOritiin-.il). 



Fig. 63. X 5. (After Smith.) 



154 (047). AMARA LATIOK Kirby. Faun. I'.or. Amer.. IV. 1s:;i. :;<;. 



Elongate-oblong, feebly convex. Piceous to black, often slightly bronzed, 

 surface finely alutaceous in females. Thorax about one-half wider than 

 long, not sinuate near base; hind angles subrectangular. very obtusely cari- 

 nate, basal impressions broad, bifoveate, punctate, the inner fovea longer 

 than the outer. Elytra slightly wider than thorax, rather deeply striate 

 the stria 1 finely punctured, indistinctly so on the apical half. Length 

 !>-10.5 mm. 



One specimen from the margin of Lake Michigan near Millers. 

 Lake County. July 29. A member of the Alleghanian fauna 

 which probably occurs throughout the northern third of the State. 



A. xchii-urzi Hayward, usually listed as s< />/< iifrioiialix Lee., was 

 described from Lake Superior and may also occur in northern In- 

 diana. 



GROUP B. 



To this group belong nine medium-si/ed oval, black or pieeous. 

 and usually bronzed-shining species. The antenmv are black or 

 pieeous with the Iwo 1o four basal joints paler. The elytra are 

 rarely, and then only slightly, wider than the thorax at base and 



