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Elytra, strife iminiiictuiod, acute, seventli one ol)soletc. inter- 

 stitial lines slightly convex, third with two or three punc- 

 tures. 



Pectus and postpectiis impunctured ; feet piceous. 



33. F. *decora. Head deep green ; thorax rufous ; elytra 

 dark cui)rcous. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



Head deep green, purplisli at base; antennrt and palpi 

 rufous, dusky at tip ; lahrum and nanus purplisli. 



Thorax pale rufous, narrower than the elytra, broadest be- 

 fore the middle, a little contracted behind, hind angles ob- 

 tuse, dorsal line slightly impressed, basal ones distinct. 



Elytra, disk obscure cupreous to the eighth stria, margin 

 green, interstitial lines somewhat convex, striaj impunc- 

 tured. 



Pectus pale rufous ; postpectus black slightly purpurescent, 

 impunctured. 



Feet testaceous ; abdomen black, piceous behind, 



33. F. *dccentis black, depressed ; third interstitial line tri- 

 punctate ; thorax each side at base depressed and punc- 

 tured ; feet l)lack. 



Length eleven-twentieths of an inch. 



Carabus gagathes. Mclsh. Catai. 



Body l)lack, depressed, glabrous. 



Jlntf^nna' piceous black : pufpi dark piceous. 



Thorax narrower than the elytra, slii!;htly contracted behind, 

 maririn somewhat depressed behind, edge recurved, pos- 

 terior edge very slightly exeurved, posterior angles not 

 round<-d. dorsal line indrnted, anterior transverse line an- 

 gularly and deeply in<Ifnted, l)ase each side excavated 

 and (oiiHuently punctured. 



Elytra, stria' with transverse, numerous, lineolar punctures, 

 interstitial lines convex, the tiiird one with tlucc reniDte. 



