COLEOPTERA— CARABID^, 

 LORICERA Latreille. 



LORICEEA GLACIALIS. 

 PI. 1, Figs. 50, 57. 



Loricera glacialis Scudd., Bull. U. R. Geol. Geogr. Siirv. Terr, III, 763 (1877). 



Of this species a pair of elytra are preserved nearly complete, but 

 cracked and flattened somewhat out of shape. It is allied to L. cseru- 

 lescens L., but differs from it and from all other American species of Loricera 

 in the much greater depth of the strife and in the presence of distinct 

 submarginal fovea?. The elytra are of a glistening, somewhat blue-black 

 color. The striae are strongly impressed, faintly though rather coarsely 

 and profusely punctulate, the third interspace with three small, distinctly 

 but not deeply impressed foveas, arranged as in L. caerulescens, two near 

 each other just above the middle of the elytra, and one behind the middle 

 of the apical half; tifth interspace sometimes furnished with a pair of very 

 faint fovepe near the middle of the elytra, much as in L. decempunctata 

 Esch , about as far from each other as from the sutural border; and finally 

 the ninth interspace, different from all the species of Loricera I have been 

 able to examine, has eight or more small but distinct and deep foveas, 

 mostly situated in the apical half of the elytra, sometimes connected by 

 oblique ridges with the next stria within. The interspaces are crossed 

 by very fine wrinkles, scarcely visible with a simple lens. Seen on the 

 under surface each of the punctures of the stride are surrounded by a circle 

 reaching to the circles around the adjoining punctures, reminding one some- 

 what of the upper surface of Elaphrus. The elytra- are shaped as in L. 

 decempunctata, particularly at the apex. 



Length of elytron, 4.4""'; breadth, LG""". 



Interglacial clays, Scarboro Heights, near Toronto, Canada. Two 

 specimens, Nos. 16416, 16417 (G. J. Hinde). 



Loricera! lutosa. 



PI. 1, Fig. 32. 



A single elytron in a perfect state of preservation. It is almost two 

 and a half times longer than broad, scarcely broader in the middle than at 

 the base, the humeral angle roundly angulated. There are ten series of 

 very coarsely punctured striae, the four inner running almost to the apical 



