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FAMILY II. CARABIDiE. 



153 (646). Amara exarata Dej., Spec, III, 1828, 509. 



Oblong-oval, robust, very convex. Blackish-piceous, shining ; antennae 

 and legs reddish-brown, the former as long as the head and thorax. Thorax 

 subquadrate, about one-half wider than long, basal impressions broad, 

 double, punctured ; hind angles small, acute, very obtusely carinate. Elytra 

 slightly wider than thorax, the striae deep, closely punctured. Length 

 8-10 mm. (Fig. 64.) 



Throughout the State; common. Hibernates. January 13 -No- 

 vember 11. 



Fig. 63. X 5. (After Smith.) 



154 (647). Amara latior Kirby, Faun. Bor. Amer.. IV, 1837, 36. 



Elongate-oblong, feebly convex. Piceous to black, often slightly bronzed, 

 surface finely alutaceous in females. Thorax about one-half wider than 

 long, not sinuate near base ; hind angles subrectangular, very obtusely cari- 

 nate, basal impressions broad, bifoveate, punctate, the inner fovea longer 

 than the outer. Elytra slightly wider than thorax, rather deeply striate, 

 the striae finely punctured, indistinctly so on the apical half. Length 

 9-10.5 mm. 



One specimen from the margin of Lake Michigan near Millers, 

 Lake County. July 29. A member of the Alleghanian fauna 

 which probably occurs throughout the northern third of the State. 



A. schwarzi Hay ward, usually listed as septentrionalis Lee, was 

 described from Lake Superior and may also occur in northern In- 

 diana. 



Group B. 



To this group belong nine medium-sized oval, black or piceous, 

 and usually bronzed-shining species. The antennae are black or 

 piceous with the two to four basal joints paler. The elytra are 

 rarely, and then only slightly, wider than the thorax at base and 



