154 MODERJf SYSTEM. 



Clivina gibba. Lat?\, Leach. 



Inhabits moist places ; is pretty common at Battersea. 



Stirps 13. — Palpi with their last joint oval, wings nunc: tibi(e ante- 

 rior not palmate-dentated : thorax sessile ; lip with the tooth of its 

 notch bifid : tibia of the third pair of legs behind spinulose : {eli/tra 

 with no impressed discoidal spots: anus in both sexes very smooth.) 



* AntenrKE setaceous. 

 Genus 45. ABAX. Bone Hi, Panzer, Leach. 



Bodi/ broad, equal depressed : eli/tr-a united, their shoulders carinate 

 plicate : antennce rather longer than the thorax : thorax transversely 

 quadrate, the base on each side with two stris, the basal angles 

 straight : {anterior tarsi of the male with three dilated joints.) 



Sp. 1. Abax Striola. 



Carabus Striola. Fahr. Car. depressus. Oliv. 



Inhabits beneath the bark of trees and imder stones. 



Stieps 14. — H7«ifs incomplete or none : /ift/if anterior simple: thorax 

 sessile : lip with the tooth of its notch simple and obtuse : {elytra 

 obliquely emarginate-truncate, without any larger impressed, dis- 

 coidal spots.) 



Genus 46. CYMINDIS. Latr., Bonel, Panz., Leach. Tarvs. 

 Clairv. Cymidis, Gi/ll. 



Labriim subquadrate, emarginate : maxillarij palpi with the fourth joint 

 rounded oval, of the labial palpi compressed, its apex more or less 

 dilated : wings none, or very imperfect. 



Sp. 1. Cym. humeralis. 



Carabus humeralis. Fabr. 



Inhabits moist banks. 



III. Anterior tibia: notched at their internal side before the apex, Flxf- 

 tra abruptly truncated, shorter than the abdomen. Wings com- 

 plete in both sexes. 

 Stirps 15. — Palpi short filiform : lip with its notch simple, or with a 

 bifid tooth : juandibles dentate at their base : palpi with their fourth 

 joint deeply truncate : thorax oblong : body convex : rciags tuo or 

 none: neck none: labrum transverse; tarsi with their fourth joints 

 simple. 



Genus 47. BRACIIINUS. Fabr., Bonel, Clairv., Latr., Punz.y 

 Sch'onh., Leach. 

 Lip with the tooth of its notch wanting : labrum not or scarcely emar- 

 ginate : labial palpi with their fourth joint rounded, oval: elylrci, 

 slightly truncated : legs moderately long : rcings two. 

 Sp. 1. Bra. crepitans. Fabr. 

 Carabus crepitans. Linnc, Marsh. 



Inhabits imder stones, near Gravesend in profusion, and occasionally 

 beneath clods of earth in ploughed fields in May. {PL '3. Jig. 10.) 



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