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TAB. LIX. 



CARABUS chrysostomos. 

 Gold en -mouthed Carahus. 



Spec. Char. Blue-green: with the mouth, antennas 



and feet rufous. Head and thorax deeply punctate. 



Elytra truncate at the end, and subemarglnate. 



Syn. Carabus chrysostomos. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 



469. iOl. 



Carabus dentatus. Ross. Faun. Etrusc. i. 222. 551. 



t.o.f.u. ^ 

 Drypta emarginata. Fab. Syst. Eleuih.i. 'ISO. 1. 

 Latreille Hist. Nat. &c. viii. 264. 1. t. 72./. 7. 

 Cicindela emarginata. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em.'i. 111. 

 37. Panz. Faun. Ins. Germ. Init. n. 28./. 15. 

 Length of the body 4 



Length or the body 4 "^ 

 ■D 1,1 r of the thorax 1- > lines, 

 ^^^^'^^n of the elytra l| J 



1 HE specimen from which our figure of this very rare and 

 most elegant little insect was taken is in the rich cabinet of 

 Alexander MacLeay, Esq., to whom it came amongst the 

 insects of the late Mr. Lewin. Mr. Marsham described it 

 from one in the collection of that intelligent and indefa- 

 tigable entomologist, the lamented John Bcckwith : these 

 are the only two British specimens that are at present 

 known to have been taken. The Rev. W. Kirby possesses 

 one from Italy, which was sent him by a Swedish entomo- 

 logist. Major Gyllenhal, as the Drypta emarginata of Fa- 

 bricius. This specimen is bluer than ours, and answers 

 exactly to that author's description of his insect. M. La- 

 treille observes that it is rare in France, and found under 

 stones. 



The entomologist of Kiel originally gave this insect as a 



Cicindela: Mr. Marsham, with more reason perhaps, has 



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