276 Mr. H. E. Andiewes o?i 



a little more narrowed towards base^ with strise — especially 

 outer ones — less impressed and less conspicuously punctate, 

 the pores on 3 smaller. 



Amara (Leiromo7yhay brucei, sp. n. 



Length 6*0-7"0 mm. ; width ^'5-3'0 mm. 



Piceous, upper surface wath faiiit metallic lustre ; antennae 

 and palpi light testaceous, side-margins of prothorax, apical 

 margin of elytra, and legs darker testaceous. 



Head very convex, not contVacted behind, clypeal suture 

 fine, the frontal impressiorjs slight and linear, eyes rather 

 flat^ antennge with short joints/ reaching little beyond base 

 of prothorax, apical joint of palpi pointed and hollowed out 

 beneath, surface smooth. Prothorax convex, a third as wide 

 again as head, and a little more tlian a third as w^ide again 

 as long, extremities truncate, sides of base bordered, sides 

 evenly rounded, without sinuation, but more contracted in 

 front than behind and widest before middle, angles not much 

 rounded, the hind ones a little obtuse, the hind lateral pore 

 within and not far removed from them ; median line short 

 and fine, transverse impressions rather shallow, inner fovese 

 well marked, ending in front in an impressed line, outer ones 

 very slight, a distinct raised area between them ; surface 

 smooth, base finely and rather slightly punctate at sides, 

 faintly strigose in middle. Elytra convex, oval, about a 

 third as wide again as prothorax, and half as long again as 

 wide, moderately contracted towards base, sides rounded, 

 basal border slightly bisinuate, with a distinct angle at 

 shoulder ; strise rather fine and very finely crenulate, striole 

 comparatively short, without pore at base, intervals nearly 

 flat, surface smooth, shagreened. Beneath the surface is 

 nearly smooth, vaguely punctate at sides, ventral surface 

 minutely strigose, prosternal process bordered at apex, with 

 two setse, metepisterna barely longer than wide, ventral seg- 

 ments bisetose, apical segment with a pair of setae on each 

 side, rather close together in 3", more distant in ? , hind 

 tibise not setose on inner margin. 



Kather larger and more elongate than A. alpicola^ ^f\j-5 

 the only other species of the group known to me, antennae 

 and legs lighter. Head with flatter eyes, the fovese less 

 marked ; sides of prothorax without sinuation, hind angles 

 obtuse, base slightly punctate, the inner foveae not so clearly 

 marked, outer ones slight but present ; stride of elytra a 

 little less impressed, striole longer, intervals flatter, basal 

 sulcus not so deep. 



Many ex., c^ ? . 



