AMERICAN PHILOSOPniCAL SOCIETY. 491 



following one ; thorux transversely suboval ; abdomen subc^uail- 

 rate. 



1. C. SCRUTATOR. — Violaceous ; thorax with a golden margin ; 

 elytra green margined with reddish-euprcuus. 



Length from twcnty-thrce-twcnticths to five-fourths of an 

 iueh. [74] 



Curabus scrutator Oliv. Ent. No. H.'i, pi. '.i, '.VI, a. b. 



Calosoma scrutator Fabr. Syst. Eleut. pars 2, j). 213. Melsli. Catal. 

 And Leach Zool. Misc. Vol. 2, p. 93, pi. 93. 



lit)dy beneath green varied with golden cupreous ; head im- 

 [tunctured, black, with violaecuus reflections, orbits above golden ; 

 anteiiiuc with ferruginous hair towards the tip ; beneath green ; 

 tooth of the labium very short, hardly prominent; thorax im- 

 punetured, blackish-violaceous, witli an uninterrupted golden 

 margin, dorsal line abbreviated, obsolete, ba.'^a'l lines none, basal 

 edge subrectilincar, tlu' lateral angles not extending backwards; 

 elytra bright green with a very slight cupreous reflection ; striae 

 reticulated by much snjaller transverse lines which are more 

 deeply impressed in the striae so as to resembles transverse punc- 

 tures, stri.u 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. 



Var. 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 sycophanta of 

 Europe; but, as Dr. Leach observes, it difftM-s from that insect in 

 color, in being less convex, and in having a shorter thorax. 



2. C. CALIDUM. — Black ; elytral striae reticulated, equal, with 

 a triple row of indented gold dots. 



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



C. calidum Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 



Carabiis rolidus Melsb. Catal. 



Head black, with crowded minute confluent punctures ; an- 

 tennaj brown towards the tip ; [75] thorax black, with crowded, 

 minute, confluent punctures, posterior lateral margin reflected, 

 posterior angles rounded and extending backwards beyond the 

 1823.] 



