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Species. 



M. Georgia deep black above, beneath piceous-black ; nasus 



with four elevated lines. 

 Length nearly three-fifths of an inch, 



Scarites Georonas piceous blackish ; /Aorax subcordate ; e/y/rrt canaliculate, striie 

 subcienate, those of the margin dentate. Palhot de Beauvoin, Vol. I., No. 7, 

 pi. 15, /. 5. 



Body elongated, black, immaculate. 



Head, an elevated line and groove over the eyes and base 

 of the antennae, two indented frontal lines ; ;;rtsw5, four 

 elevated longitudinal lines ; aiitenmr, ferruginous hairs at 

 tip, basal joint piceous : labriim piceous-black, emargi- 

 natcd at tip ; mandibles canaliculate on exterior base. 



Thorax glabrous, narrower behind; angles acute ; a strongly 

 impressed dorsal line, and an abbreviated indented one 

 each side at hind angles ; exterior margin with six or eight 

 hairs; a slight emarginure before the hind angles; no ab- 

 breviated stria near the scutel. 



Elytra striate; stritc impunctured, slightly crenate, marginal 

 one more conspicuously so; marginal interstitial line 

 ocellatcly punctured from base to tip ; humeral angles 

 slightly acute. 



I found two specimens under the bark of a decaying tree, 

 in South Carolina; I have not met with any in this state. 



Genus Harpalus, Latr. 



Anterior tibia emarginate ; four anterior tarsi dilated in the 

 male ; elytra entire ; antenna' filiform, joints sulicylin- 

 driral : labrum subquadrate, entire, or very slightly emar- 

 ginate ; palpi filiform ; tongue exserted, cylindrical arnl co- 

 riaceous in the middle, and membranaceous each side, tip 

 truncate, unarmed ? neck none. 



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