PLATE DXXVI. 
CARABUS INTRICATUS. 
INTRICATE-DOTTED CARABUS. 
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COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft joint obtufe and 
truncated ; thorax flat and margmed: wing-cafes margined. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Apterous, violet-black: wing-cafes with raifed intricate ftrie and 
dots. 
CaRABUS INTRICATUS. Apterus violaceo-niger, elytris intricatis 
elevato-firiatis punctulatifque. Linn. Fn. Suec. 
780. &c. 
CaRAsus cyANEus. Apterus niger violaceo nitens, elytris punctis 
intricatis rugofis Paykull. Monogr. 10. 2.— 
Fabr. Ent. Syfi. T. 1. p. 126. n. 9.—Buprettis 
nigroviolaceus. Geoffr. Inf. I, 144. 4. 
It 
