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The terrestrial Adephaga of Iowa (Part 1) by Fanny Chastina Thompson Wickham, 1895

The terrestrial Adephaga of Iowa by Fanny Chastina Thompson Wickham, 1895, Page 52

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Brownish bronze, undersurface green; head hairy, granulate; labrum one toothed; eyes black; thorax quadrate, granulate; elytra punctured, humeral lunule C-shaped, median band rectangularly beut, connected with a marginal line, nearly but never quite reaching the lunule, apical lunules inflected anteriorly. Length. 12-13 mm. Found on sand banks and bars. The larva of C. repanda Dej. is yellowish white, head piceous, thorax slightly bronzed. The form is rather slender, cylindrical, slightly flattened, head and thorax at right angles to the body, the last four segments of abdomen gradually arcuate forward. Length 16.5 mm. Head triangular, hind angles obtuse, corneous, concave above, a strongly elevated transverse ridge posteriorly and a feeble longitudinal impression on each side. Frontal margin with prominent middle lobe with sides slightly convergent, on each side a very feeble tooth at base, lateral lobes feebly prominent
 
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