14 PLAT B! CBXxIL 
FoI G? i. 
CARABUS GEMMATUS. 
CoLEOPTERA. 
CARABUS. 
SPECITVIGCWHARAC TEE 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Apterous, black. Wing cafes marked with frie; and three 
rows of bronzed indented double {pots. 
CaRABUS GEMMATUS apterus niger elytris ftriatis: punftis eneis 
bilobis excavatis triplice ferie—Fab. Ent. Syft. 1. 19% 
W229 : 
Carabus ftriatus.— Degeer Inf. 4. 90. 5. tab. 2. fig. Ve 
Carabus gemmatus.—Paykull Monogr. 15. 6. 
This {pecies has commonly been miftaken for Caradus horienfis : 
the difference, however, between the two InfeGts, is confiderable. 
The colour of this Beetle is black, gloffed witha rich bronze, par- 
taking of a green and golden hue on the wing cafes, anda fine purple 
on the thorax: the underfide is plain black. 
FIG. 
