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NOTES ON SOME OF THE COMMON SPECIES OF CARABIDÆ, FOUND IN TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Philip S. Sprague
Affiliation:
Boston, Mass.

Extract

Oblong-oval, piceous; legs, mouth, antennæ and sides of prothorax, rufotestaceous. Head black, shining, rather large; antennæ short, scarcely reaching the base of thorax, the latter nearly twice broader than long, basal angles broadly rounded, sides scarcely depressed at the apical angle, very much so behind, the margin narrowly reflexed, basal foveæ shallow scarcely punctured. Elytra ♂ black shining, ♀ semi-opaque and distinctly reticulate, striæ not deep, interstices somewhat convex, with a dorsal puncture behind the middle near the second stria, apex slightly and obliquely sinuate with a small but distinct sutural spine in the ♀ beneath rufo-piceous.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1870

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