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insects. Fig. 504 represents the larva of the Carabus auro- 
nitens. 
Another genus of the same family is Calosoma. They have 

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“ Fig. 503.—Carabus nodulosus. Fig. 504.— Larva of Carabus auronitens. 
a wings under their elytra,—the true Carabi have not,—which they 
a use in passing from one tree to another. 
, Tn the month of June is to be found on oak trees the beautiful 
* Calosoma sycophanta (Fig. 505), the occurrence of which here is 


Fig. 505.—Calosoma sycophanta. Figs. 506, 507.—Pupa and larva of Calosoma auropunctatus 
doubtful. This insect is of a beautiful violet blue, having the 
antennz and the legs black, and the elytra of a splendid golder 
ereen, with longitudinal streaks. According to Réaumur, the 

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