CARABID-flS. AMARA. 119 



Amara eurynota, Dej. Spec. 3. 458 ; Icon. 3. 239. pi. 160.- 



Steph. Mand. 1. 127, et Manual, p. 36. 

 A. carata, Steph. Mand. 1. 127. 



Ovate, very broad, shining brassy. Head smooth, mouth, 

 palpi and antennae black, three joints at the base of the latter 

 red. Thorax narrowest in front, anterior angles produced, very 

 wide behind, having a slight abbreviated dorsal furrow and on 

 each side at the base a very deep small pit remote from the 

 posterior margin, hinder angles produced and acuminated. 

 Elytra scarcely wider than the thorax, ovate, apex obliquely 

 sinuated and acuminated, striated, the striae impunctate, inter- 

 stices rather elevated ; legs black, tibiae and tarsi with red cilia. 

 Length 5 lines. 



Generally distributed. 



4. A. trivialis : oblongo-ovata, plerumque anea ; thorace antice 



angustato, basi utrinque foveola unica profunde impresso; 

 elytris subtiliter striatis ; antennarum articulis tribus basi 

 rufis ; tibiis rufo-piceis. 



Harpalus trivialis, Gvll. Ins. Suec. 2. 140. 



Amara trivialis, Dej. Spec. 3. 464; Icon. 3. 246. pi. 160. 



Steph. Mand. 1. 129, et Manual, p. 36. Erichson, Kafer, 87. 



Heer, Faun. Helv. 94. 

 A. atra, Steph. Mand. 1. 134, et Manual, p. 37. 



Variable in colour, being brassy, greenish brass, bright green, 

 coppery, black or occasionally cyaneous. Head with an obsolete 

 fovea on each side in front ; three joints at the base of the 

 antennae red, the rest black. Thorax narrowed in front, as wide 

 behind as the elytra, the angles produced, disk with a slight 

 dorsal furrow and a deep small pit on each side at the base, 

 somewhat after the manner of that in the preceding species, also 

 close to the angles a small shallow impression. Elytra oblong- 

 ovate, narrowed at the apex, finely striated ; tibiaB pitchy red. 

 Length 3^ lines. 



A. atra, Steph., is a black individual of this species, which is 

 extremely abundant everywhere. 



5. A. spreta : ovata, fusco-anea ; thorace antice angustato, pos- 



tice utrinque bifoveolato obsoleteque punctato ; elytris 

 striatis, striis subtilissime punctulatis ; antennarum arti- 

 culis tribus basi rufis ; tibiis rufo-piceis. 



Dej. Spec. 5. 791 ; Icon. 3. 248. pi. 161. Erichson, Kafer, 87. 



Heer, Faun. Helv. 94. 



A. curta, Steph. Manual, p. 36. 



