38 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species appears to be related to P. lucublandus, but it is narrower in proportion, the upper 

 surface of the body is of a changeable colour, green or copper, " as the site varies in the gazer's 

 hand." The basilar impressions of the prothorax are green and blue and more grossly and dis- 

 tinctly punctured ; the lateral margin is not dilated posteriorly or depressed, as in the other Pcecili: 

 the sides of the elytra are green, their furrows are more distinctly punctured than even those of 

 P. cupreus, and they exhibit only two punctiform impressions, both beyond the middle of the 

 elytrum : the legs are black. 



Family AMARIDiE. Amaridans. . 



XIX. Genus AMARA Bonell. 



(51) 1. Amara vulgaris. (Latreille.) Common Amaru. 



Amara vulgaris. Latr. Crustac. Arachn. and Ins. i, 192. De J. Cat. 9; Coleopi. iii, 4G3, 5. Sturm Deutsch. Fn.i 



48, 26. Steph. Illuslr. Mandib. i, 128, 5. 

 Carabus vulgaris. Linn. Fn. Suec. 799; Syst. Nat. i, 672, 27. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. i, 195, 37. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. 167. 



33. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 438, 16. 



dispar. Payk. Fn. Suec. i, 167, 88. 



ovatus. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. i, 89, 200. 



Var. a, Payk. Mon. Car. 132, 81. 



Harpalus vulgaris. Gyllen. Ins. Suec. ii, 138,48; iv, 444, 48. 



Length of the body 4—4^ lines. 



Many specimens taken in Lat. 65°. and in the Rocky Mountains. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, glossy ; above black-bronzed. Scape of the antennas piceous ; inner lobe of the 

 maxilla?, and first joint of the outer palpi, testaceous ; basilar impressions of the prothorax double, 

 deepish, impunctured, the external one oblique ; channel abbreviated anteriorly, with a punctiform 

 impression beyond the middle : furrows of the elytra lightly drawn, indistinctly punctured ; apex 

 subacuminate or suddenly narrowed : legs black with the hairs, spurs, and claws, testaceous. 



Variety B. Bright, bronzed with a cupreous tint. 

 C. Wholly black. 



