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PL:AT E .DLXV. 
CARABUS DIMIDIATUS. 
KUGELANNIAN CARABUS, 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform: feelers fix, the exterior joint obtufe and trun- 
cated: thorax obcordated, truncated behind, and margined: wing- 
cafes margined: abdomen ovate. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONY RS, 
Braffy green: head, thorax, and outer margin of the wing-cafes 
generally purple: wing-cafes fomewhat convex ftrie: legs black. 
CARABUS DIMIDIATUS: #neo-virens, elytris firiatis: interftitiis con- 
vexiufculis, pedibus nigris. Maijh. Ent. Brit. 
T. 1. p. 445. Sp. 35. 
Oliv. Inf. 111. 35. 72. 94. t. 11. f. 191. 
Carasus KuGe,annul. Panz. Faun. Germ. 39. t. 8. 
Illiger. Kugel. Kaf. Preu/. 166. 30. 
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A very fcarce infe&t, and one of the moft beautiful of the Bntith 
Carabi. Its fize is moderate, or rather {mall, fomewhat exceeding 
the length of half an inch, the colours on the fuperior furface vivid, 
beneath black with a faint glofs of violet, The antenne are black 
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