51. Amara Vulgaris, Latr.—Length of body 4 to 4½ lines. Many specimens taken in lat. 65°, and in the Rocky Mountains.

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