76 DESCRIPTION OP INSECTS 



Antennae brownish towards the tips ; palpi, terminal joint 



dilated. 

 Thorax margined, margin violaceous, gradually more re- 

 curved to the posterior angles, posterior angles very ob- 

 tusely round, slightly extending backwards beyond the 

 basal line, base depressed and with the lateral margin 

 somewhat scabrous, dorsal line obsolete, basal lines want- 

 ing. 

 Elytra black, margin violaceous, disk nearly smooth with 

 al)out thirty strife of minute impressed punctures and 

 three distant series of remote excavated ones. 

 All the species of this genus that 1 have seen, as well as 

 those of Procrustes, Calosoma, ^c. have the tibia of the se- 

 cond pair of feet of the male densely ciliated near the ex- 

 ternal tip, with fulvous hair. 



3. C. *M?^e;T?//;^?/s apterous, blackish ; elytra slightly bronzed ; 



fourth, eighth, and twelfth interstitial lines interrupted ; 



striae concave with impressed punctures and elevated ones. 

 Length nine-tenths of an inch. 



Carabus granulatus. Melsh. Catal. 



Head black ; antennae and palpi deep piceous, the former 

 fuscous towards the tip. 



Thorax black, with numerous, minute, indented punctures, 

 which are obsolete on the disk, dorsal and basal lines 

 conspicuous, margin towards the posterior angles slightly 

 reflected, posterior angles rounded, prominent behind the 

 the basal line. 



Elytra black-bronzed, stria? with a somewhat lateral series 

 of punctures and numerous elevated ones, interstitial 

 lines fifteen, two of wiiich are more conspicuous, fourth, 

 eighth, and twelfth interrupted, interrupted lines acute 

 behind, a submarginal series of elevated punctures. 



Feet black ; venter deep piceous or black. 



The impressed punctures of the intervening lines of the 



