74 DESCRIPTION OP INSECTS 



Carabus scrutator. Oliv. Ent., No. 35, pi. 3, 32, a. b. 



Calosoma scrutator. Fabr. Syst. Ehut., Pars 2, p. 213. Melsh. Catul. and 

 Leach Zool. Misc. Vol. II., p. 93, pi. 93. 



Body beneath green varied with golden cupreous. 



Head impunctured, black, with violaceous reflections, orbits 

 above golden ; antenme with ferruginous hair towards the 

 tip; beneath green; tooth of the labium very short, 

 hardly prominent. 



Thorax impunctured, blackish-violaceous, with an uninter- 

 rupted golden margin, dorsal line abbreviated, obsolete, 

 basal lines none, basal edge subrectilinear, the lateral 

 angles not extending backwards. 



Elytra bright green with a very slight cupreous reflection ; 

 strife reticulated by much smaller transverse lines which 

 are more deeply impressed in the strife so as to resemble 

 transverse punctures, strife fifteen, transverse lines very 

 numerous, fourth, eighth, and twelfth interstitial lines each 

 with several distant impressed punctures, exterior margin 

 reddish-cupreous. 



Feet violaceous ; venter green, incisures each with a golden 

 cupreous base and lateral spot. 



Far. a. Head distinctly punctured, disk of the thorax green 

 with a very slight violaceous tint ; length nine-tenths of an 

 inch. 

 This species makes a very near approach to the syco- 



phanta of Europe ; but as Dr. Leach observes, it differs from 



that insect in colour, in being less convex, and in having 



a shorter thorax. 



3. C. calidum black ; elytral stripe reticulated, equal, with a 



triple row of indented gold dots. 

 Length from nine-tenths to nine-eighths of an inch- 



G. calidum. Fabr. Syst. Ehut. 

 Carabus calidus. Melsh. Catal. 



Head black, with crowded minute confluent punctures j aii- 

 tennce brown towards the tip. 



