CARABID.E. AMARA. 



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sloped inwards towards the base, which is depressed and punc- 

 tured and has two punctured fovese on each side, the exterior one 

 smallest. Elytra ovate, moderately convex, strongly punctate- 

 striated ; underside black, legs red. Length 2| lines. 



Stephens's description corresponds with this species, but the 

 examples in his cabinet belong to the preceding species. 



Rare. Stated by Mr. Haliday to have been taken at Port- 

 marnoch in Ireland, by Messrs. Tardy and Furlong. 



(PERCOSIA, Zimmermann.) 



17. A. patricia: ovata, nigro-picea, nitida ; Horace transverse, 



postice punctato, utrinque bifoveolato, angulis posticis 

 rectis ; elytris punctato -striatis ; antennis pedibusque rufis. 



Carabus patricius, Dufts. Faun. 2. 110. 



Amara patricia, Dej. Spec. 3. 502; Icon. 3. 292. pi. 167. 



Erichson, Kafer, 92. Heer, Faun. Helv. 87. 

 A. zabroides, Dej. Spec. 3. 504 ; Icon. 3. 294. pi. 167. 

 Brady tus marginatus, Curtis, Ann. Nat. Hist. 5. 274. Steph. 



Manual, p. 39. 



Pitchy black, very shining, margins of the thorax sometimes 

 more or less red, broader, less convex and more ovate than the 

 next species ; palpi and antennse wholly red. Thorax as wide 

 again as the head, very short, the width about half as much 

 more as the length, a little narrowed at the anterior angles, which 

 are not prominent, rounded below them as far as the middle, 

 then straight and with the posterior angles produced, the base 

 very depressed punctured and with two large and very broad 

 somewhat united punctured fovese quite extending from the 

 dorsal line to the hinder angles on each side. Elytra very broad 

 ovate, deeply striated, the striae finely punctured, interstices very 

 smooth and glossy ; legs red. Length 4-5 lines. 



Not common. Mr, Curtis's examples of Bradytus marginatus, 

 which correspond with this species, were taken at Boxhill. I have 

 captured it at Deal ; Folkstone ; and near Beddgelert in North 

 Wales in August. 



** Prothorax postice plus minus angustatus. 



(BRADYTUS, Stephens.) 

 (LEIRUS, Zimmermann.) 



18. A. consular is : oblongo-ovata, nigro-picea, nitida; thorace 



subquadrato, postice utrinque profunde bifoveolato, foveis 



