126 CARABID^E. AMARA. 



rectis ; elytris punctato-striatis ; antennis pedibusque Jer- 

 rugineis, 



Carabus oricalcicus, Muller, Prod. Zool. Dan. 79 (1776). 



Harpalus bifrons, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 144. 



Amara bifrons, Dej. Spec. 3. 485; Icon. 3. 269. pi. 164. Steph. 



Mand. 1 . 130, et Manual, p.38. Erichson, Kafer, 94. Heer, 



Faun. Helv. 90. 



A. brunnea, Sturm, D. F. 6. 56. 

 Carabus lividus, Fab. S. El. 1. 201. 

 Amara discrepans, Steph. Mand. 1. 131. 



About the size of A. familiaris. Oblong-ovate, brassy brown, 

 shining ; mouth, palpi and antennse rusty red, tip of the mandi- 

 bles black. Thorax short, sides a little rounded below the an- 

 terior angles, broad behind, posterior margin almost straight, and 

 the basal angles right angles, these together with the lateral 

 margins rusty red, the base much depressed and punctured, with 

 two large fovese on each side which are strongly punctured. 

 Elytra very little rounded on the sides, moderately convex, 

 punctate-striated throughout, apex testaceous ; legs wholly red. 

 Length 3 lines. 



This species, commonly known under the name A. bifrons, had 

 been previously described as Carabus oricalcicus in the ' Zoologies 

 Danicse Prodromus/ 1776, which name I have restored to it in 

 right of priority. The original example of C. lividus, Fab., in the 

 Copenhagen Museum, is according to Erichson an immature 

 individual of this species, to which also C. discrepans, Marsham, 

 belongs. It is not a very common species, but has been taken 

 near Richmond ; at Hertford ; South Shields and Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed; and is likewise included among the Irish species. 



(ACRODON, Zimmermann.) 



16. A. brunnea : ovata, obscure nigro-cenea ; thorace amplo, 

 basi utrinque bifoveolato punctatoque, angulis posticis 

 subrotundatis ; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis ; antennis 

 pedibusque rufis. 



Harpalus brunneus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 143. 

 Amara brunnea, Dej. Spec. 3. 483; Icon. 3. 266. pi. 163. 

 Steph. Mand. 1. 131, et Manual, p. 38. Erichson, Kiifer, 95. 



Pitchy, thorax and elytra with a greenish metallic tinge, 

 margins of the former narrowly red. Head smooth and convex 

 behind, with a small oblong impression on each side in front, 

 palpi and antennae red. Thorax short and broad, a little 

 narrowed in front and the anterior angles produced, sides dilated 

 and rounded below them, then nearly straight or very slightly 



