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 PLATE CCCXIIL 



CARABUSNITENS. 

 Shining Carabus, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas fetaceous. Thorax heart-fhaped truncated at the apex. 

 Elytra margined. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



No wings. Elytra rugged, with feveral longitudinal ridges, green 

 margin reddifli gold. Legs black. 



Carabus nitens : apterus elytris porcatus fcabris viridibus : 

 margine aureo, pedibus nigris. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 

 669. 6. — Fn. Sv. 185. 



Carabus nitens, E^l>. Erd. SyJi. T. I. p. 131.7^. 30 



Carabus nitens. Paykull. Adonogr. 24. 12. 

 Carabus aureus, Degeer. Inf. 4. 94, 9. 



Schaff. Icon. tab. S'^-fiS' ^' * 



Suh. Hiji. Inf. tab. "/.fig. 3. 



The Carabus nitens is a very rare and recently difcovered fpecies 

 in Great Britain. It is lefs uncommon in other parts of Europe, 

 and efpecially in Germany, from whence the Englifh colledliors are 

 ufually furniQied with fpecimens for their cabinets. 



The fmalleil figure denotes the natural fize. 



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