28 PLATE CCCCLXXVIL. 
and has, fince that time, been met with by entomological colleétors, 
both in Norfolk and Ireland. Mr. Hooker, F. L. S. poffeffes an 
example taken in England. 
ELG.TL.. LL 
CARABUS CRUX MAJOR. 
LARGER CRUCIATE CARABUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Thorax and head black and downy: wing-cafes ferruginous, with a 
black crofs. 
CanABus CRUX-MAJoR: thorace capitque nigro-villofa, coleoptris 
ferrugineis: cruce nigra. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 673. 
8a—laun Suee. 808.—Labr. Lint. Sy ft. 1. a. 
160. 158.—Gmel. 1978. 39.—Marfh. Ent. Syft. 
iL. Wap ag Ve 
Carapus prpustuLatus. Lubr. Syft. Ent. 207. 50.—Sp. Inf. 
be Sl 2a VAs 
Le Chevalier noir. Geoffr. 1. 150: 17. 
Buprefiis eruciata. Panz. Voet. 2.70. 7. ¢. Big 7, 
An infeét of « i iful j ; 
An infect of elegant formation, very beautiful in colour, and of the 
greater interefi the Englifh alift i 
e i : erelt to the Englith naturalilt, as being rare. The black 
cruciate mark on the red wing-cafes conftitute a charaGter of much 
ee . fingularity. 
