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This is not Chlorida festiva.
Chlorida festiva looks like this:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/236...
Yours is some kind of a ground beetle, Carabidae. For my eyes it looks like the Fiery Searcher.
Carabidae, Carabinae, Carabini, Calosoma scrutator.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/389
http://bugguide.net/node/view/625675/bgp...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/648178