82 O RDE R I. Carabus. 



Genus XXV. Carabus. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 631. 



The antennae of the Carabus are feta- 

 ceous. 



The thorax is fhaped fomewhat like a 

 a heart, the point of which is cut off, and 

 is margined. 



The elytra have a margin. 



The Carabi differ greatly in fize, and 

 are divided from that circumftance, into 

 two families; the firft containing the 

 larger, the fecond the fmaller ones. 



Geoffroy has united the Cicindela of our au- 

 thor with this genus, under the generical name of 

 Butrejiisy given by Linnaeus to another genus; he 

 adds to the above characters of the Carabus, that 

 they have a confiderable lamina or knob at the 

 bafeof the thighs, which is found alfo in the Ci- 

 cindela, but is fcarce fufficient to juftify the 

 placing that infect under the fame genus with the 

 Carabus, from which it differs in the plominen- 

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