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rounded, dorsal line obsolete, basal lines excavated, base 

 will) iunierous small punctures, edge dull rulniis. 



Elijtra dark brown or lilackis i, with ()l)solete perlaccous 

 reflections, stria> inipunctured, interstitial lines depressed, 

 sutural edge and deflected margin rufous or piceous. 



Pectus and posfpectns inipunctured. 



Feet testaceous. 



Far. a. Elytra blackish-testaceous, almost destitute of the 

 perlaceous reflections. 



36, F. *lucublanda green or reddish-purple, polislicd, all 

 beneath black : head and thorax inipunctured, margin of 

 the tlioiax depressed. 



Length eleven-twentieths of an inch nearly. 



Carabus lucublandus. Melsh. Calal. 



Body glabrous, green, polished, beneath black. 



Head impunctured ; antennii and palpi brown rufous at base, 

 three basal joints of the former with a dusky carina. 



Thorax impunctured, widest in the middle, a very little nar- 

 rowed l»eliind by a regularly curved edge, base nearly as 

 broad as the elytra, basal angles rectangular, oixuse, lateral 

 margin very distinctly and abruptly depressed, dorsal line 

 acute, lateral ones, two on each side, indented. 



Elytra green or reddish-purple, margin pur|)lish-opake, in- 

 terstitial lines convex, inipunctured, the third with two or 

 three remote punctures, strise purplish within, impunc- 

 tured. 



Feet blackish-piceous or rufous. 



Agreeably to M. Latrcille's definition of the PoeciUm of 

 Bonelli. this insect prol)al)ly belongs to that cjeniis : the ca- 

 rina of the antcnnjc is not confined to the third Joint, hut is 

 extendid to the second a?id first, and is very definite and 

 striking ; but the character attributed to that genus of •' thorax 



