AGONID/E. 25 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, glossy. Mouth and its organs rufous, except the upper-lip which is edged with 

 that colour; antenna? longer than the prothorax, piceous with the scape paler than the other joints : 

 prothorax longer than in the following species, oblong-ovate, with the lateral margin piceous, and 

 not dilated posteriorly as in the majority ; basilar impressions rather shallow, oblong : elytra oblong, 

 rufo-piceous, slightly furrowed, furrows impunctured ; five punctiform impressions between the 

 second and third; the three anterior ones adjacent to the latter, and the two posterior to the former: 

 legs dusky rufous. 



Variety B. With only four punctiform impressions, legs paler. 



C. With the second, third, and fourth joints of the antenna? piceous, the rest ferrugi- 



nous : impressions of the elytra as in B. 



D. Larger, elytra with five impressions, in other respects like C. 



This species appears very like A. lenum De Jean, 3 which is also North American, but the colour 

 of the underside of the body and of the head and prothorax is different. 



(27) 3. * Agonum sordens. Dingy Agonum. 



A. ( sordens) nigrum nitidum ; prothorace postice angustiuri, antennis basi, pedibusque testaceis ; elytris sordide testaceisfoveolis 

 quinque impresses. 



Dingy Agonum, black, glossy; prothorax narrower behind ; base of the antennee, and legs testaceous ; elytra dingy-testa- 

 ceous, with five punctiform impressions. 



Length of the body 3 lines. 



Two specimens taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, glossy. Head rhomboidal ; mouth, mandibles at the tip, palpi at the base, and scape 

 of the antenna?, rufous ; frontal impressions very slight : prothorax scarcely longer than wide, nar- 

 rowest behind ; dorsal channel rather deep ; lateral margin underneath testaceous ; basilar impressions 

 oblong, deepish : elytra dusky-testaceous, in one specimen a little bronzed, slightly furrowed, furrows 

 impunctured ; between the second and third are five punctiform impressions placed as in the last 

 species : epipleura and legs testaceous. 



3 Coleopt, iii, 166, 39. 



