122 CARABID^E. AMARA. 



a greenish tinge, sometimes more brilliant brass. Head blackish, 

 convex behind, obsoletely impressed in front of the antennae, the 

 latter with two joints at the base red, the rest brownish black 

 with the tip testaceous. Thorax narrowed in front, sides rounded 

 below the anterior angles, which are slightly prominent, then 

 straight behind the middle and as broad as the elytra, the dorsal 

 furrow transversely wrinkled in the middle and terminating at 

 the base in some very fine longitudinal strise, between which 

 and the angles are two obsolete impressions on each side, the 

 inner one oblong and reaching to the hinder margin, the exterior 

 one round. Elytra broad and rather shortish ovate, being a 

 little widest behind the middle, simply striated, the strise some- 

 what deeper at the apex, interstices flat ; legs black, tibiae rusty 

 red. Length 2f lines. 



Not uncommon on the sand-hills at Deal in company with A. 

 lucida and tibialis, but immediately distinguishable from either 

 by its broader form. 



9. A. familiaris : oblong o-ovata, &nea ; thorace antice angustato, 



postice obsolete bi-impresso ; elytris subtiliter striatis ; an- 

 tennarum articulis tribus basi pedibusque rufis. 



Carabus familiaris, Dufts. Faun. 2. 119. 



Harpalus familiaris, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 4. 145. 



Amara familiaris, Dej. Spec. 3. 469; Icon. 3. 254. pi. 161. 

 Steph. Mand. 1. 133, et Manual, p. 37. Erichson, Kafer, 90. 

 Heer, Faun. Helv. 96. 



A. cursor, Sturm, D. F. 6. 57. Steph. Mand. 1. 130, et Ma- 

 nual, p. 37. 



A. lavis, Steph. Mand. 1. 130. 



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



Oblong-ovate, brassy or greenish brass, bronzed black, some- 

 times pitchy with the margins of the thorax reddish. Head with 

 a small impression on each side a little behind the antennae, three 

 joints at the base of the latter red. Thorax narrowed in front, 

 with the anterior angles prominent, straight from about the 

 middle to the posterior angles, which are rectangular, the dorsal 

 furrow very slender, the base with two very shallow impressions 

 on each side and without any appearance of punctuation. Elytra 

 ovate, with the sides moderately rounded, very finely striated, the 

 stria? a little deeper at the apex ; legs entirely red. Length 3 

 lines. 



A. IfEvis and lucida, Steph., are identical with the present 

 species, which is extremely common. 



10. A. lucida : oblongo-ovata, viridi-tenea ; thorace postice utrin- 



