PLATE CCCCLXXVI. 
FIG. I. 
CARABUS SYCOPHANTA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft joint obtufe and 
truncated: thorax flat and margined: wing-cafes margiuate. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Winged : fhining violet: wing-cafes green-gold and ftriated. 
CARABUS SYCOPHANTA : alatus violaceo-nitens: elytris firiatis au- 
| reis. Faubr. Sp. Inf. \. p. 303. n. 25.— Mant. 
ny IV, pe 107. nh. 3A. 
CARABUS SYCOPHANTA: aureo-nitens, thorace cceruleo, elytris 
aureo-viridibus ftriatis, thorace fubatro. Linn. 
Fn. Suec. 790.—Gmel. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 1966. 
n. 12.—Geoffr. Inf. p. 1. p. 144. n. 5.— Reaum. 
Inf. 2. t. 37. f. 18.— Sulz. Hit. Inf. t.7. f. 1. 
—Bergfir. Nomencl. 1. t. 12. f. 1.2. 
One of the largeft and moft fplendid of the European Carabi, and 
which has not, till very lately, been difcovered in England. It is 
‘Mentioned, in the firft inftance, by Dr. Turton, as a British fpecies, 
E2 and 
