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FAMILY II. CAEABID^.. 



15.') (041)). Amara kxakata Dej.. Spec. III. 1S2S. 500. 



Obloug-oval, robust, very convex. Blackisb-piceous, sbining; uutenuiv 

 aud legs redclish-brow]!, the former as long as the bead and thorax. Thorax 

 subqnadrate, about one-half wider than long, basal impressions broad, 

 double, punctured ; hind angles small, acute, very obtusely earinate. Elytra 

 slightly wider than thorax. I lie strise deep, closely ])unctured. l>engtii 

 8-10 mm. (Fig. 64.) 



Throughout the Stal 

 vember 11. 



(■ : coiiiiiioii. 



llihci'iiutcs. fJuiiiiai'N' l;3-No- 



Fig. 64. X 3i. (OrigiiKil). 



5. (After Smitti.) 



154 (t>4T). Amara latiok Kirby. Faun. I'.or. Amer.. IV, ISoT. oG. 



Elongate-oblong-, feebly convex. Piceous to black, often slightly bronzed, 

 surface finely alutaceous in females. Thorax about (me-half wider than 

 long, not sinuate near base; hind angles subrectangnlar. very obtusely eari- 

 nate, basal iniiirossions broad, bifoveate. punctate, the inner fovea longer 

 than the outer. Elytra slightly wider than thor;ix, rather deeply striate 

 the stria? finely punctured, indistinctly so on the apical half. Lengtli 

 <J-10.5 mm. 



One specimen from the margin of T^ake ^Michigan near ^Eillers. 

 Lake County. -Inly 29. A member of the AUeghanian favuia 

 wliicl) j)r()l)al)ly occurs throiighout the northern third of the State. 



.1. sclnrai-zi Hayward, usually listed as sepfcntrionalis Lee., was 

 described from Lake SujxM'ior and may also occur in northern In- 

 diana,. 



Group B. 



'^i'o 1his gfoiip l)('loii<.;' nine meclinm-sized oval, black or piceous. 

 and usually hron/cd-sliiuiu'j' species. Tlit^ ajitennte are black or 

 piceous Willi 111!' Iwo 1o four liasal Joints paler. The elytra are 

 rarely, iitid Ihcn omI\- sli^iith-. wi.lcr than the thorax at base and 



