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the punctate rows of pronotum are less distinct than in bilineata , and 



the punctures in these often fewer. Elytra can occasionally be feebly 



metallic glistenin*. Otherwise it is easily separated from bilineata 



by the yellowish-red spot oil elytra. Mesosternum finely carinated. L. 



2.5-3.5 mm. 



20. A. verna Say. 



(Say Transact. Am. Entom. Phil. VI, 156; Ganglb. Kaf. M. II, 4,?. - 

 binotata Krastz Ins. D. II, 106; Uuls. et Rey Brevip. 1874, 156. - lonjula 

 Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 254). 



Glistening black, finely haired; elytra each with an obliterated or 

 not sharply bounded, and often extensive yellowish-red spot at tip near- 

 est the suture, more rarely almost entirely yellowish-red or entirely black; 

 antennal base and the lejs most often brownish-red. 



Much like nitida , as a rule a little smaller, also slenderer and more 

 evenly broad. Antennal third Joint distinctly shorter than the second; the 

 punctate rows of pronotum are distinct, and most often set in slightly 

 deepened, posteriorly groove-like impressions; the elytral spot is not 

 sharply bounded, often extensive or entirely obsolete; puntation of ab- 

 domen is denser and namely of the hindmost joints also more robust than 

 in the preceding species. Mesosternum finely carinated. L. 2-3.5 mm. 



Much lees common than nitida , most frequently found on the strand 



under seaweed and at remnants of animals. 



3. Subgenus Rheochara Muls. ot Pay. 



?1. A. spadicea Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. fcr. I, 300; ien. Spec. Staph. 61; Kraatz Ins. D.II. 

 98; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1874, 165; Janglb. Kaf. iJI. II, 42. - procera 



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