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mine whether it should be placed among the Omasei, 
with which it agrees in general form, or in the section 
Pterostichus, to which the almost imperceptible ridge 
upon the apex beneath, would seem to refer it. 
Judging by their respective descriptions, it seems to 
be allied to the Harpalus Dréscheri of Fischer (Pterós- 
tichus Dréscheri, Dej.) and to the Ferónia cribrata, 
Bonelli, both of Europe. 
4. BUPRESTIS INORNATA. 
corpore brevi, subdilatato, subcupreo ; antennis e irs 
nidis; thorace dilatato, densè punctulato, medio utrinque bi-impresso 
elytris densé profundéque punctulatis; subtus punctulato, ad niet 
nigro-viridi, nitido. 
Body short, subdilated: head somewhat coppery, 
densely punctured, with a slight concavity in front: 
` eyes elongated, olivaceous: thorax densely punetured, 
subdilated, with two transverse impressions more or less 
conspicuous on each side the middle; margin rounded, 
lateral submargin with a concavity behind near the 
posterior angles; posterior margin with a narrow, 
smooth, highly polished border; lateral margin rounded : 
scutel subtriangular: elytra densely punctured, appa- . 
rently granulated, more or less concave before and be- 
hind the middle: body beneath black, punctured, towards 
the apex blackish green, highly polished: legs black. 
Var. a. Thoracic transverse depressions, as well as 
those on the elytra, nearly obsolete. 
Length between four twentieths and five twentieths 
of an inch. 
Several specimens occurred about the niddn of June 
near Moosehead Lake, on the blossoms of Raninculus 
