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8. C. NEMORALIS. — Cupreous-green, beneatli black ; elytra 

 purple-black; antennae and feet rufous; head impnnctured ; tho- 

 rax at base narrower than the elytra. 



Length half an inch. 



Carabus amethystinus Melsh. Catal. 



Body with very short, numerous hairs, cupreous-green ; elytra 

 dark purple, beneath black ; head glabrous, polished ; labrum 

 ferruginous, truncate ; antennae and palpi rufous; thorax broadest 

 in the middle, posterior lateral edge slightly excurved, base nar- 

 rower than the elytra, punctures numerous, small, impressed 

 lines distinct; scutel not darker than the elytra; elytra deep 

 purple, obscure, with numerous minute punctures and punctured 

 striae, interstitial lines depressed ; sternum slightly tinged with 

 green ; feet rufous. 



Is at once distinguished from sestivua by the impressed front, 

 and from impuncti/rons by having the thorax narrowed behind. 

 (Common in Pennsylvania. I found it also in Georgia and Flo- 

 rida. 



3. C. SOLITARIUS. — Green, polished, beneath piceous ; feet 

 pale ; head impunctured ; thorax at base narrower than the ely- 

 tra, subcordate. 



Length nearly eleven-twentieths of an inch. 



Body green, polished, beneath piceous-black ; head impunc- 

 tured ; antennae brownish, paler at base ; labrum truncate, pale 

 ferruginous ; thorax dilated before the middle, contracted be- 

 hind, dorsal lines and base punctured, disk each side impunc- 

 tured ; scutel purplish ; elytra green, polished, striae indented, 

 obtuse, punctures distinct, intervals not equal to their length 

 and becoming obsolete towards the tip, interstitial lines convex, 

 with very distinct punctures; [65] feet pale, joints somewhat 

 ilarker ; tail pale. 



Differs from all the preceding ones in having the lines inter- 

 vening between the striae convex. It was taken on the Missouri 

 by Mr. Nuttall. 



10. C. PENSYLVANlcus. — Green, polished, beneath piceous; 

 elytra blackish; feet rufous; head impunctured; interstitial 

 lines of the elytra somewhat convex. 



Length not quite half an inch. 

 1823.] 



