Cijmlndis.] adepiiaga. 135 



Chalky hill-sldcs, under stones nnd at roots of grass ; local, but not unoommnn ; 

 Box Hill, Kei<,'ate, Mifkl.hain ; Isle of Wiglit; New Forest; Lewes; Swunage ; 

 Portland; Portsmouth; Weymouth; Lowestoft; Swansea. 



C. vaporariorum, L. (//rtW/.s, Gyll.). Dull, somo^vliat pulii'scent ; 



head and thorax black or dark brown, thickly and coarptdy punctured, 

 antennae and palpi ferruginous ; thorax convex, cordiform, much more 

 strongly punctured and more contracted behind than in the preceding, 

 posterior angles sharp, projecting, dorsal furrow and basal foveas feeble ; 

 elytra black with the base reddish brown, plainly striated, tlie inter- 

 stices thickly and coarsely puucttired in two irregular rows ; legs red. 

 L. 8-10 mm. 



Moors, mountains, and high districts, under stones, at roots of trees or herbage, &c. ; 

 very local and not common ; Lhuigollen ; Midgley Moor, Halifax, and Tecs district, 

 Yorkshire ; Heswell, Cheshire ; Liverpool district ; Cannock Chase ; Twizell Moor, 

 Northumberland. Scotland, local. Highlands and mountains, Tweed, Forth, Dee, and 

 Clyde districts (Braemar, Avieiuore, Paisley, &c.). Ireland, Donegal. 



ODACANTHINA. 



A large number of exotic species are contained in this tribe which are 

 remarkable for their large heads and long thorax, the large genus Cas- 

 nrmia being especially noticeable ; from the Dryptina as usually consti- 

 tuted, and from the Brachinina the tribe is distinguished by the fact 

 that its members have the penultimate joint of the labial palpi bisetose 

 in front and not plurisetose : if, however, we admit Poiystichjis (in 

 which it is bisetose) among the Dryptina, and this seems, although 

 doubtfully, to be its proper place, it is difficult to find a distinguishing 

 character that will hold universally. As ]\Ir. Bates, however, has sepa- 

 rated off Ega and its allies (in Avhich the globular or semi-glolndar neck 

 so characteristic of Odacantha is feebly marked or obsolete) under a sub- 

 family Lachnophorin;«, this character (the possession of a more or less 

 cylindi'ical neck) will separate the tribe before tis from all the other true 

 Truucatipennes Avith bisetose penultimate joint of the labial palj)i, exce])t 

 Agra, which may at once be distinguished by the strongly securiform last 

 joint of the labial palpi. The two other tribes "which have been classed 

 M'ith this group of the Truncatipennes do not really belong to the true 

 Truncatipennes at all ; these are the Ctenodactylina, Avhich liave tho 

 elytra rounded at the apex and entire, and which for other reasons 

 besides this fact ^fr. Bates places under a separate subdivision Obtusi- 

 pennes, and tho INIormolycina Avhich seem to form a distinct type of 

 Carabidai altogether. 



ODACANTHA, Paykull. 



Four species only liddiig to this genus, one from Bunnah, another 

 from Senegal, a third from Japan, and the fourtli from Euiope ; this 

 latter is the sole representative of the tribe in thi' European fauna ; they 

 are found in marshy and rei;dy places on the banks of lakes and swamps. 



