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black, margined with ferruginous ; elylra striated black, border ferruginous 

 pale ; fcorfy beneath black ; feet pale. Cab. Dr. JIunler. 



Oliv. III., p. 89. pi. 9,/. 99. Carolina. 



Carabusfurcalus. Mehh. Catal. 



Body beneath black. 



Head deep black ; anteiinoe and palpi ferruginous. 



Tfiorax pah; testaceous ; a large black spot occupying the 



disk, sometimes distinguished into several obsolete lines, 



a longitudinal impressed abbreviated line. 

 Feet pale ; anterior ones six-spined on the outer edge of the 



tibia, two terminal s[)ines approximate. 

 Elytra paler than the thorax, striated, impunctured, each 



with a broad, black, abbreviated vitta, which is separated 



from the suture by the first elevated line. 



Var. a. Pale testaceous beneath, 



Far.fl. Elytra with a common black disk, formed by the 



junction of the vittsu at the suture. 

 Far. >. Thorax immaculate. 



Very like a lineola, but is a little smaller, and more de- 

 pressed ; and otiierwise sufficiently distinct. I should have 

 been in doul)t whether this species or tlie next was the true 

 pallipes of Fabr., had it not been for the specific character 

 ^•thorax rotundatns'" applierj by that naturalist to his insect, 

 a character more decidedly applicable to this species. 



It is not uncommon, and appears to be a general inha- 

 bitant of this country, Nuttall found it on the Missouri. 



8, F. *atrimedea pale rufous ; head, disk of the thorax and 

 of the elytra black ; tx-neath black ; feet testaceous ; pos- 

 terior tlioracc angles acute, 



Li'ngth one-fourth of an inch. 



Bnd]i black beneath. 



Hrad l)lack ; antennrr, ba«5e rufous ; pnlpi rufous. 



Thorax rufous, with a l)Iack disk ; edge slightly excurvcd 

 near the hind angles ; iiind angles acute ; dorsal line dis- 



