392 INSECTA. 



with brilliant colours, and at the first glance resemble Cicindelse or 

 Elaphri*. 



There, the length of the third joint or the antennae is triple, or 

 nearly so, of that of the preceding one. These organs, as well as the 

 legs, are generally slender. 



In these, the four first joints of the anterior tarsi in the males are 

 wide, and the penultimate is bilobate. 



COLPODES, Mac Leay. 



This subgenus established by Mac Leay, Jun. Annul. Javan., I, 

 p. 17, pi. i, f. 3 appears to be allied in many points to Catascopus 

 and the following subgenera. According to him, the labrum is a 

 transverse square, and entire, the emargination of the mentum simple 

 or edentate, and the head almost the length of the thorax. The 

 latter is nearly in the form of a truncated cone, emarginate before, with 

 rounded and slightly bordered sides. The elytra are slightly emar- 

 ginate. The lobes of the penultimate joint of the anterior tarsi of 

 the male are the largest. The body is somewhat convex. He quotes 

 but a single species, the brunnevs. 



In those, all the joints of the tarsi, in both sexes, are entire. 



MORMOLYCE, Hagemb. 



The body strongly flattened, foliaceous, and its anterior half much 

 the narrowest ; head very long, narrow, and almost cylindrical; tho- 

 rax oval and truncated at both ends ; elytra greatly dilated, and arcu- 

 ated exteriorly, their internal side, near the extremity, profoundly 

 emarginate. 



The only species known phyllodes is found in Java, and 

 forms the subject of a Monograph published by M. Hagem- 

 bach. 



* This subgenus was established by M. Kirby on one of the Carabici (Catascopus 

 Hardwickii, Trans. Lin. Soc. XIV, iii, 1 ; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d'Eur. II, vii. 8) 

 of the East Indies, which has a green head and thorax, the elytra of a greenish-blue 

 with punctuated striae, and the under part of the body almost blackish. M. Mac 

 Leay, Jun. Annul. Javan. I, p. 14 places the Catascopi in his family of the Har- 

 palides, directly after the Chlaenii, and refers to it the C. clegans, Fab., -which M. 

 Weber arranges with the Elaphri. He distinguishes them from another neighbour- 

 ing subgenus, which he establishes under the name of Pericahts, by the antennae, the 

 second and third joints of which are nearly equal iu length, whilst here the third is 

 the longest ; by the mandibles which are short, thick, and curved, instead of being 

 directed forwards and nearly parallel ; by the palpi which are short, thick, with the 

 last joint ovoid and almost truncated, whilst those of the Pericali are slender and cy- 

 lindrical ; and finally by the head, which is wider than the thorax, a circumstance 

 that does not occur in the Catascopi. Besides this, the eyes of the Pericali are very 

 globular and protuberant, giving them some resemblance to the Elaphri and Ciciu- 

 delae. He describes but one species Pcricalus cicindelaides, 1 , 2 ; we are still, how- 

 ever, ignorant of their sexual difference, particularly as respects the tarsi. The form 

 of the ligula of the Catascopi and that of their tibiae remove them from Elaphrus and 

 Tachys. These insects approximate most nearly to the Chlaenii, Anchorneni, Sphodri, 

 &c. Several of the Simplicirnani have the extremity of their elytra strongly sinuous, 

 and in this respect are hardly distinguished from the Truncatipenness. 



