COLEOPTBRA. 9?7 



DROMIAS, Bon. 



Generally apterous ; joints of the tarsi entire ; otherwise'similar to 

 Demetrias. 



There, the thorax is evidently wider than it is long, forms the seg- 

 ment of a circle, or resembles a heart, widely and transversely trun- 

 cated posteriorly. 



In some, the middle of the posterior margin of the thorax is ex- 

 tended backwards. Such is 



LEBIA, Lat. LEBIA LAMPRIAS, Bon. 



Exterior palpi terminating in a little larger and nearly cylindrical 

 or oval joint, truncated at the end ; four first joints of the tarsi almost 

 triangular, and the fourth more or less bifid or bilobate. One of the 

 most common in Europe is 



L. cyanocep/tala ; Carabus cyanocephalus, L., Fab.; Bupreste 

 II fu a corselet rouge, Geoff. ; Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ., LXXV, 

 5; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d'Eur., fascic. Ill, xii, 7- From two 

 to two linos and a half long ; blue or green and very lucent 

 above ; first joint of the antennae, the feet and thorax fulvous- 

 red ; extremity of the femur black ; elytra marked with slight 

 punctuated striae. 



L. haemorrhoidalis ; Carabus hcemorrhoidalis, Fab.; Hist. 

 Nat. des Coleop. d'Eur., fascic. Ill, xiii, 8. Not above two lines 

 in length ; body fulvous with black elytra, terminated by a yel- 

 lowish-fulvous spot ; elytra slightly striate, the striae punctuate, 

 witli two more deeply impressed puncta near the third, com- 

 mencing from the suture *. 



In the following, the thorax terminates posteriorly in a straight 

 line without any central projection. 



PLOCHIONUS, Dej. 



The antennae almost granose ; last joint of the labial palpi large, 

 nearly securiform; four first joints of the tarsi short, in the form of a 

 reversed heart, the fourth bilobate f. 



ORTHOOONIUS, Dej. 



Similar tarsi ; but the antennae are filiform, and the external palpi 

 terminated by an almost cylindrical joint J. 



COPTODERA, Dej. 



The palpi of the preceding; antennae more or less granose ; three 

 first joints of the anterior tarsi short and wide ; the same of the four 



See op. cit. 



Add of American species, the Ub. tmalis, titlala, quadrivittata fuscala, mayinir 

 Ww, riritto, and the L. borea, solca, and grandis. of Hentz, new species, 

 t Op. 



: Dejean. Spec. I, i>. 279: all the species foreitrn to Europe. Near this sub- 

 jenus may perhaps be placed that of the Hcxagonia, Kirby, Lin. Trans., XIV. 



