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PLATE CCCCLXXXVIII. 
CARABUS COMPLANATUS. 
SAND CARABUS. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft joint obtufe and 
truncated: thorax flat and margined: wing-cafes marginate, 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Pale: two black-waved lines on the wing-cafes. 
CARABUS COMPLANATUS: pallidus, elytris fafciis duabus undulatis 
nigris. Linn. Sy. Nat. 2. 671. 17. 
CaRABUS ARENARIUS: pallidus elytris maculis duabus dorfalibus 
atris. Fubr. Spec. Inf. 1. 305. 34.—Syjt. Ent. 
241. 26.—Mant. Inf. 1. p. 199. n. 46. 
The very elegant and interefting fpecies of Carabus, at prefent 
before us, appears to be the original |. Complanatus of Linneus : 
this we learn from the authentic fpecimen of that infeét defcribed 
by Linnzus himfelf, and which, conftituting a part of the Linnzan 
cabinet, is now in the potfeffion of Dr. Smith. 
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