COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS. 
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their own fraternity. Although this genus is not 
extensive, the species are very widely distributed. 
In Europe they range from Sweden to the shores 
of the Mediterranean ; several occur in Senegal and 
at the Cape of Good Hope ; and a considerable 
number inhabit America and the eastern regions of 
Asia. The only kinds known as British are C. inqui- 
sitor and that which we have figured : the latter is 
CALOSOMA SYCOPHANTA. 
PLATE III. Fig. 1. 
Fabricius , Syst. Eleuth. p. 212— -Carabus sycophants, Olim 
vier , iii. 35, p. 42, No. 43, t. 3, fig. 31. 
It does not exceed ten or eleven lines in length, 
the figure on the plate being somewhat enlarged. 
The colour of all parts of the body except the ely- 
tra is violet-black, sometimes slightly glossed with 
green. The head and thorax are covered with 
minute punctures and irregular transverse wrinkles ; 
the former having two deep longitudinal impressions 
between the antennae, and the latter a faint line 
down the centre. The scutellum is black, and 
nearly smooth. The elytra are of a rich green, 
glossed with golden yellow ; in shape somewhat 
like a shield, and marked with closely placed striae, 
which have small punctures in the bottom, and a 
row of rather large and remote punctures on the 
fourth, eighth, and twelfth interstices. 
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