GeodepJiagous Culeoptera of Japan, 293 
depressed ; the two foveas on eacli side nearly equal, very 
distinct and rounded ; the exterior one is bounded by a 
raised wheal. The elytra (and under-surface) vary in 
colour and amount of metallic lustre ; their ground colour 
is, however, always more or less rufo-piceous, which colour 
appears in the margins of the darkest specimens. The 
anterior tibias are not especially dilated, and their external 
edge has a few longish bristles. 
A. (^Celia) laticarpus, n. sp. 
Ovata, valde convexa, nigro- vel fusco-picea ; antennis, 
palpis pedibusque testaceo-rufis ; thorace transversira qua- 
drato, ely tris multo angustiori,antice et postice paulo angus- 
tato, angulis posticis prominulis, foveis duabus utrinque vix 
punctatis, exteriori multo minori et absque plica marginali ; 
elytris striis vix punctulatis, striola scutellari brevi ibique 
interstitio dilatata ; tibiis anticis ad apicem dilatatis, parte 
dilatata extus breviter 5-spinosa. 
Long. 3 lin. $. 
Hiogo ; two examples. 
The species would be almost as well-placed in § Leioc- 
nemis as in § Celia ; but the great width of the thorax 
gives it an appearance different from that of the species 
placed in Leiocnemis. The head is very short, and the 
eyes prominent. The thorax is twice as broad as long ; 
more narrowed in front than behind, with anterior angles 
standing far away from the sides of the head, and the hind 
angles obtuse, except a small triangular projection ; the 
base is smooth in one specimen, and has a few punctures 
in the fovere and near the hind angle in the other ; there is 
scarcely any trace of fold or wheal on the outerside of the 
exterior fovea. The anterior tibi^ are rather suddenly 
dilated near the tip, the dilation much rounded, and its 
outer edge furnished with a row of 5 short and stout spines. 
Amara chalcites, Zimmerman, Monogr. Amar. p. 34 ; 
similata var., Dej. Spec. Gen. iii. p. 46; co7igrua, 
Moraw. Beitr. p. 62; similata ( Gyll.), Motsch. Etudes 
Ent. 1860, p. 7 ? 
Nagasaki ; Hiogo, abundant ; Yesso (Morawitz). 
A species closely allied to the common European A. 
ovata and similata, having the broad shape of the former 
and the coloration of the legs of the latter. 
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