70 COLEOPTERA. 



frequently met with in fields and gardens run- 

 ning with great quickness, and hiding them- 

 selves in the ground, and under stones. They 

 for the most part shun the light, and seek their 

 food in the evening, preying with great vora- 

 city on other insects ; and (as if they still re- 

 tained the impression of their former barbarous 

 habits) often on each other. They have a very 

 strong and disagreeable smell 5 and, when taken, 

 exude from the mouth and anus, a drop of a 

 nasty, acrid, and very caustic liquor. 



SPECIFICATION. 



Carabus clathratus. C. apterus nigricans, ely- 

 tris porcatis: interjectis punctis excavatis Ion* 

 gitudinalibus. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 669. Gmel. 

 p. 1962. Pair. Syst< Ent. 1, p. 238. Spec. Ins. 

 1. p. 302. M&nt. Ins. 1. p. 197. 

 Degeer, Ins. 4. p. 87. t. S.f. 12. 

 Voet. Coleopt. 2. t. 38./. 40. 

 Panzer, Faun. Ins. Germ.fasc. 75. t.\. 

 Inhabits Europe, and is found, though not common, 

 in woods. 



PL 25. a, A horn. b. A feeler, c, The thorax, 

 d. A lee. 



