COLEOPTERA CARABID.^. 73 



group, having entire tibiae, whilst, in his three other families, which he 

 terms aberrant, they are deeply notched. 



Messrs. Kirby and Spence divide the Carabidae into two subtribes, 

 Lamprowa, named from the brilliancy of colour of many of the species 

 and corresponding with Latreille's Abdominales, and Amaurona or 

 those of obscure colours, and comprising all the other groups of La- 

 treille, the latter subtribe being divided into stirpes, as Trunclpenmma, 

 &c. ; these stirpes, however, being evidently of equal value with the 

 entire subtribe Lamprona, this primary mode of division cannot be 

 considered satisfactory. 



Mr. Stephens has proposed six families of Carabideous insects: — 

 1. Brachinidge MacL. 2. Scaritidaj MacL. 3. Carabidee MacL. 

 4. Harpalidae ManL. 5. Bembidiidae Steph., and 6. Elaphridae Steph. 

 This distribution is, however, evidently unnatural, separating, as it 

 does, the Harpalidas and Scaritidse, and the Carabidae and Elaphridas. 

 No affinity, moreover, is traced between the Scaritidae and Carabidee. 



Other modes of distribution have been proposed by Zimmerman 

 {Monog. Amaroidwn), Laporte (^Etudes Entomol. livr. i.) and Brulle 

 {Hist. Nat, Ins, Col, vol. i.), which it would be tedious to detail, In 

 all these arrangements, however, the Harpalides are divided into three 

 groups, corresponding with the Simplicimana, Patellimana, and Quad- 

 rimana of Latreille {Regno A?ii}nal, 2d ed.). The latest arrange- 

 ment of these insects is that of Mr. Kirby, given in the Fauna 

 Boreali- Americana, and which is as follows : — 



Geodephaga. 



-Euptera. 



(Cicindelidse. ) 



fTriincipciinia. 



Eutreeha. «( 



(IJrachinida; M'L.) 



/^^] . • ■ r Nohilia CCarabus, &C.L 



Obtusipenma. -^ „, , . )-.j , . ' - ' 

 ' L i lebeia (Nebria, &c.). 



Sarrotlirojioda. 



I (Chla'nius. ) 



ij^ I r Diinana ( Aponuni.Calatlius, 



LCystopoda. < and Fcronia, &c. ). 



|_ QuadriiTiana (Harpalus). 



{Qiiadrimana. 

 (Stenolophus. ) 

 iJimana. 

 (Trechus, Patrobus, &c. ). 

 Hygradephaga. J Subulipalpia. 



( I'eryiihus, Bembidiiiin, &c. ) 

 Filipalpia. 

 (Elapbrus. ) 



Omophron (both belonging to the same group) from the termination of the Carabidae, 

 considering tlic latter genus as " ordained by nature perfectly to connect the Carabidae 

 with the Dyticida?." 



