INHABlTtNG NORTH AMERICA. V7 



Winged ; body above black, beneath ferruginous. Inhabits North Americn. 

 Mm. D. Lewin. Fabr. S. Ekut. I., p. 193. 



Resembles C. rttficornis ; head black ; /Aornj; almost square, witli a loug;itu(linal 

 line impressed in the middle, and two impressions posterior ; elytra biiick, 

 striated; body beneath brown, more or less clear. Cab. of M. Bosc. Oliv. 

 III., p. 57, lab. II, f. 9-2, 6., Length seven-tenths of an inch. 



Carabus ostraceicornis. Mehh. Catal. 



Head black ; antenntt and vimith rufo-tcstaccous ; gula 



piceous. 

 Thorax glabrous on the disk ; a dorsal impressed line : area 



of the hind angles depressed and confluently punctured. 



posterior angles rounded. 

 Elytra striate, slrise impunctured, margin with numerous 



punctures -. pfclus and pustpediis piccous-bluck, piceous on 



the disk, with obsolete punctures. 

 Feet testaceous, pale ; venter plceous-black ; tail paler. 



A very common insect under stones, ^c. It does not 

 pertectly correspond with the description of bicolor of 

 authors, but I do not know what other insect they allude to. 

 Mr. Marsham describes this insect as aa inhabitant of Great 

 Britain. 



3. H. *eratic\is reddish-brown, beneath testaceous; elytra 

 fuscous : tliorax a little contracted at base. 



Length three-iit'ths of an inch nearly. 



Bodij glabrous, reddish-brown, beneath testaceous. 



Head not darker tlian the tliorax ; antemm fuscous towards 

 the tip. 



Thorax broad as the elytra, gradually contracted behind, 

 marginal groove somewhat dilated, dorsal and t)asal lines 

 distinct, continued to the base, anterior transverse line 

 widely curved, base not wider than the tip, each side ol)- 

 soletely punctured, basal edge rectilinear, lateral angles 

 obtuse slightly rounded. 



Elytra darker tlian the thorax, striate, striie inii)uncturcd. 

 interstitial lines convex. 



