INHABITING NORTH AMERICA. i3 



here described must be considered a variety. Several indi- 

 viduals \v(ne btou2;IU from the Missouri by Mr. Nuttall. 

 They are occasionally taken, in Pennsylvania, on flowers. 

 When recent, it is of a much more bright red than when 

 lona; preserved in tiie cabinet. The red becomes pale, and 

 the white vitta vellowish. 



Caught in Mr- K. Haines's garden, Germantown. 



3. L. *atriv€ntns ferruginous ; elytra deep purple ; venter 

 black. 



Length one-fourth of an inch. 



Body inipunctured, naked or with very few hairs. 



Antemue brown ; three first joints ferruginous ; palpi l)lackisii. 



Thorax, disk convex; margin towards the hind angles de- 

 pressed ; hind angles rounded ; a longitudinal impressed 

 obsolete line. 



Elytra deep-blue, with acute, distant, not deeply impressed 

 striif , a series of punctures on the external margin from 

 the humerus to the middle of the tip; punctures more dis- 

 tant on the middle of the margin. 



J^ails pectinated ; venter purple-black. 



Found under stones, ^'c 



4. L. *ornata rufous ; head and elytra black ; the latter with 

 a yellowish edge and four spots- 



Carabus 4-notatus. Melsh. Catal. 



Length, male one-fifth — female one-fourth of an inch. 



fiorf^/impunctured and almost destitute of hairs. 



Head black; three basal joints of antcnnfe rufous. 



Trunk rufous, paler beneath- 



Thorax with an ol)soIctc longitudinal impressed line ; disk 



somewhat convex; margin depressed. 

 Feet pale ; naih pectinated. 

 Elytra striated ; stri;c acute, distant ; two large sul)triangular 



or subovate spots near the base ; two smaller ones near 



the tip ; and outer edge yellow. 



