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and without any distinct paraglossae. The species are all foreign to 

 Europe(l). 



The others, w.hich, with those that immediately follow, appear to 

 approximate to the Brachini(2), have the penultimate joint of all the 

 tarsi strongly bilobate; the mandibles and maxillae long, narrow, and 

 projecting; the body thick; the head in the form of a narrow and 

 elongated triangle; the thorax almost cylindrical, and slightly nar- 

 rowed posteriorly. 



The first joint of the antennae is long and narrowed at base. The 

 rnentum is nearly lunate, and is destitute of a tooth in the middle of 

 the emargination. The ligula is salient, narrow, almost linear, and 

 terminated by three stout spines; it has two small paraglossae. The 

 under part of the tarsi is covered with down. Such are the charac- 

 ters of 



Drypta, Lat. Fab. 



All the species known belong to the eastern continent and to 

 New Holland. Two inhabit Europe, and are always found on 

 the ground. 



The most common is the Drypta emarginata, Fab.; Clairv. 

 Entom. Helv. II, xvii; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d'Eur., fasc. II, 

 x. 1. It is about four lines in length, and of a beautiful azure- 

 blue; the antennae, mouth and legs, fulvous; extremity of the 

 first joint of the antennae and the middle of the third, blackish; 

 elytra with punctate striae. More common in the south of 

 France than the north. M. Blondel Jun., however, has found 

 it in abundance in a locality near Versailles(S). 

 We now come to the Carabici; very analogous to the preceding 

 ones in their divisional characters, but removed from them by the 

 form of their tarsi. The four first joints, or at least those of the 

 anterior tarsi of the males, are greatly dilated and bifid; the penul- 



(1) Helluo costatus, Hist. Nat. des. Coleop. d'Eur., fascic. II, vi, 5; Galerita 

 hirta, Fab. See the Species Gener. Dej. I, p. 283. 



An undescribed species from Brazil appears to me to form a new subgenus by 

 its filiform palpi, of which the last joint is cylindrical. 



(2) The Dryptse are also allied to Cychrus, and seem to connect the Cicindelitae 

 with the Carabici Grandipalpi. Several sections of this family seem to connect 

 themselves with the Cicindclx like so many branches. Most of the other families 

 of Insects are similarly situated, or form ramified trunks in a word, continuous 

 series do not exist in nature. 



(3) For the other species, see Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d'Eur., fascic. II, x, 2; 

 and the Species Gener. des Coleop. Dej. I, 182. 



