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NOTES ON THE AMAR^. 
base; elyt. with slightly punctulate striae, and a continuous series of 
impressions on the margin; body beneath pitchy-seneous black ; legs, and 
three basal joints of the ant., rufous; pal. pitchy. Length 3i lines. 
Vm\ jS. Above shining black, or deep coerulescent. 
Var. y. Similar in colour to the preceding, but [distinguished by being 
only 2i lin. in length, and having the ant. entirely rufous, and the series 
of impressions on the margin, interrupted. Denominated by Stephens 
(who is in doubt whether it ought to rank as a species or a variety) 
A. lucida ; it is also, apparently, Carabus Imidus of Duftschmid. 
Var. (Carabus erytkropus, Marsham, MSS.; A. er^thropa, Steph,) 
is distinguished from var y. by having two obsolete smooth fovese on each 
side at the base of the thorax. Length 2^ — 3 lines. A. familiaris is 
rare near Warrington, but of more frequent occurrence near London, 
Kimpton, &o, 
Sp. Amara ati^a, Stephens. 
Spn. — A. aira^ Steph. Mand. i. 134. 
Sp. Char. —Deep black, slightly glossy, very convex; hd, smooth; thx. rather 
broad, with a slight dorsal channel, and two subpunctate fovese, on each 
side at the base near the hinder angles ; the inner rather the deeper; elyt. 
very faintly striated, the external stria with an interrupted series of im- 
pressions: the reflected margin of the elyt. and the sides of the thx, 
beneath, seneous ; the tibise and tarsi pitchy-red; the ant. stout, fuscous, 
with the three basal joints testaceous. Length 3 lines. 
The above description is taken from Stephens, who makes the following 
additional observations : “ Remarkably convex, and of a deep, rather obscure 
black, which characters, and its slender, somewhat elongated legs, well dis¬ 
tinguish it from its congeners; itsomewhat resembles a Helops.” —“ One specimen 
only found near London.” 
Sp. Amara tibialis., Stephens. 
Spn.—Carabus tibialis., Payk. ; A. tibialis., Steph. Mand. i. 135. 
Sp. Char. —Oblong; above brassy, black; in some specimens blue, coppery, 
or black ; thx. slightly convex, transverse, nearly quadrangular; with a 
slight dorsal line, and two small impunctate impressions on each side at 
the base; elyt. with punctate stride, and an interrupted series of dots on 
the margin; fern, pitchy; the tibise, tarsi, and three basal joints of the 
ant., rufo-testaceous. Length 2—2? lines. 
Not common, but apparently pretty generally distributed. This and the 
succeeding species (to which it is closely allied) may be readily discriminated by 
the abbreviated strife near the scutellum being absent, or its situation merely 
marked by a few distant, obsolete punctures; 
