286 INSECT A. 



oval in others, and truncated at base; these are furnished with wings. 

 A new species has been discovered in Sicily by M. Lefevre. All 

 the others, both of this and the preceding division, inhabit northern 

 Africa or the East Indies(l). 



The third subgenus, in its moniliform antennae, the teeth on the 

 exterior side of the two first tibiae and in the ordinary proportions 

 of the mentum, evidently approximates to Scarites. 



Carenum, Bon. 



Straight maxillae without a terminal hook; summit of the ligula 

 rounded; ultimate joint of the exterior maxillary palpi enlarged and 

 double the length of the preceding one. 



The only species known Scarites cyaneus, Fab. inhabits 

 New Holland. 



None of the other Carabici of this section exhibits labial palpi 

 terminated by a larger and securiform joint: the last is in the form 

 of a reversed and elongated cone, or almost cylindrical and smaller 

 at base; the same joint of the exterior maxillary palpi is also nearly 

 cylindrical; all these palpi are about the same thickness throughout 

 or sometimes attenuated at the extremity. 



A first very natural subdivision, which comprises the Scarites of 

 Fabricius, the cyaneus excepted, consists of bipartite Carabici, whose 

 anterior legs are palmated, or at least digitated at the end, that is to 

 say, terminated exteriorly by a long point in the form of a spine, op- 

 posite to a very stout internal spur. Their antennae are granose; 

 the second joint as long as the following one, and frequently longer. 

 The mandibles, those of a small number excepted, are stout, pro- 

 jecting, and angular, or dentated on the internal side. The labrum 

 is very short, transversal, and crustaceous. The ligula is most fre- 

 quently entirely corneous, bristled with hairs or cilia, broadly emar- 

 ginate or widened at the summit, and with projecting lateral angles. 



Some have very strong, projecting, and usually dentated mandi- 

 bles; the anterior margin of the crustaceous labrum very dentate, the 

 ligula short, not extending beyond the mentum, entirely horny or 

 crustaceous, bristled with hairs, and widened at the superior mar- 

 gin. Their anterior tibiae are always palmate. The species gene- 

 rally are large. 



One of these subgenera, 



(1) The Stag, atrata, depressa, (Galerita depressa, Fab.), Fejus, [Galeritajlt/u.s, 

 Fab.) Schupelii, Dej., lb.; Scarites kevigatus, Herbst. Col. CLXXV, 6. 



