INSECTA. 545 
Family LXTII. Carabicina (Adephaga terrestria, Carabict and 
Cicindelete Larr.). Palps six; maxille with double palp (ex- 
ternal lacinia palpiform). Mandibles exsert. Maxillee incurved at 
the apex. Antenne thin, filiform. Body mostly oblong, with 
thorax cordate, oval or quadrate. Abdomen composed of six seg- 
ments, the three first connate. 
A numerous family, in which Désnan in 1839 distinguished 
nearly 2,800 species, and which with Lrnnaus consisted of two 
genera Carabus and Cicindela numbering together, in the last 
edition of the Systema Nature, only 57 species. 
Compare G. DE PayKutn M onographia caraborum Suecie. Upsaliz, 1 790, 
8vo ; CLAIRVILLE Entomol. Helvétique, vol. 2, Zuric, 1806, 8vo; F. A. 
BONELLI Observations entomologiques, 4to, 1809, (Académ. des Sc. de Turin) ; 
D&sEAN Species général des Coléoptéres d’ Europe, Tom. 1—1v. Paris, 1829— 
1831, 8vo, &c. 
Phalanx I. Ligula porrect (often augmented by lateral ap- 
pendages or paraglosse). Apex of maxilla (with few exceptions) 
without hook distinct, articulate. Labial palps with three joints, 
set upon labium by means of a peduncle elongate, immoveable. 
Head not broader than thorax, mostly narrower. Many species 
apterous. (Carabicina in the stricter sense, Oarabide Lracn, 
Westw.) 
Running-beetles, earth-beetles. Most of the species live under- 
ground, under stones, under bark of trees. They run very swiftly. 
The cesophagus is at its origin narrow, but it soon expands 
largely ; to this crop succeeds the muscular stomach and a long 
narrow stomach beset with villi, at the inferior extremity of which 
the four vessels secreting urine are implanted. The small intestine 
is short, the rectum oval and wide. RAMDORR, op. cit. pp. 82—84, 
Tab. ut. figs. 7, 8, Tab. xxv. fig. 2, Lion Durour Ann. des Se. nat. 
me PL 260731. 
The larve have a longitudinal body, divided into twelve rings, 
without counting the head. The first ring (prothoram) is horny ; 
the last has two conical, horny, or membranous appendages. The 
head has strong jaws, six simple eyes on each side, and two antennz 
consisting of four joints. The six feet are of moderate length, with 
two hooklets at the extremity. 
See figures of the larva of OCarab. auronitens, Oarab. hortensis, Curab. 
depressus, and Cychrus rostratus in O. Hrmr, Observ. entom. Tab. I. 11. and 
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