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PLATE DXxXx, 
CARABUS LUNATUS, 
LUNATED CARABUS. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft joint obtufe and 
truncated ; thorax flat and margined: wing-cafes margined. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNOMY MS. 
Thorax orbicular and rufous: wing-cafes yellow, with three black 
fpots. . 
Caragus LuNATus. Thorace orbiculato rufo, elytris flavis: ma- 
culistribus nigris. Fabr. Ent. Syft. I. 163. 172. 
—Syft. Ent. 247. 60.—Panz. Ent. Germ. 63. 
98.—Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 466. 1. 
Carabus eques. Schranck. Beytr. 
This very elegant little fpecies is defcribed by Fabricius as an. 
inhabitant of Britain, on the authority of a fpecimen in the collection 
of 
