42 CARABID^. 



121. Pterostichus dilaticollis, 



Argutor dilaticollis, Woll, Ins. Mad. 42 (1854). 

 -- , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 14 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in sylvaticis humidis editioribus Line 

 inde sat vulgaris. 



Occurs in the damp sylvan districts of Madeira proper (especially 

 in the laurel-forests in the north of the island), where it is locally 

 rather abundant at intermediate and lofty elevations. 



122. Pterostichus curtns. 



Argutor curtus. WolL, Im. Mad. 43 (1854). 

 - - - , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 14 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), hinc inde in intermediis occurrens. 



Likewise peculiar to Madeira proper, but with a rather lower range 

 than the last species, occurring for the most part at intermediate 

 altitudes, but sometimes descending into less elevated districts. 



Genus 32. AMARA. 

 Bonelli, Observat. Ent. i. (1809). 



123. Amara trivialis. 



Harpalus trivialis, Gyll. [nee Dufts.~\, Ins. &uec. ii. 140 (1810). 



Amara trivialis, WolL, Ins. Mad. 47 (1854). 



-- , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 15 (1857). 



-- , Schawn, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. i. 531 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P 10 S to ), sub lapidibus sat vulgaris. 



The A. trivialis, so common throughout Europe and in the north 

 of Africa (and which has been recorded from North America, and 

 even Siberia), is rather abundant in the Madeiran Group where, 

 however, it has been observed hitherto only in Madeira proper and 

 Porto Santo ; but it has not yet been detected in any other of these 

 Atlantic islands. 



(Subgenus Leiocnemis, Zimm.) 



124. Amara versuta. 



Amara bifrons, Hart, [nee Gyll.'], Geol. Verhaltn. Lanz. undFuert. 141. 

 - versuta, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. 215 (1863). 

 -- , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 51 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), in intermediis parum rara. 

 A Canarian species, which has been captured hitherto only in Lan- 



