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Resumé. 



Larvae of the groups Lebiini and Odacanthini: 

 the genera Lebia and Odacantha. 



By 



E. C. Rosenberg. 



In the year 1867 Mr. Schiodte published a work on 

 larvae of the Carabidae known by him at that time, it being 

 the 3rd part of his excellent and monumental w^ork about larvae 

 called »De Metamorphose Eleutheratorum Observationes« 

 which is a supplement to the history of the development of 

 the insects, Nat. Tidsskrift, 3. K., 4. B. (Natural History 

 Magazine ser. 3. vol. 4.), but Mr. Schiadte wanted of course 

 several, even of important Danish species. It was therefore 

 a valuable supplement, that Mr. Schiødte in one of the 

 following volumes of the same journal, vol. 8, did in adding 

 the composition of 4 new genera, among which Dromius, 

 as representing a larger group of genera, was one of the 

 most important. 



The object of this work is now to give, according to the 

 best of my abilities, a supplement to the work of Mr. S c h i e d t e. 

 Accordingly I have on the whole followed Mr. Schiødte in 

 my composition not only in my diagnosis in extenso, given 

 in Latin, but also in my copious description, that is given 

 in Danish. 



In designs and explanations I have thought it better 

 everywhere to follow Mr. Schiødte. Only on one point, 

 the presence of the upper lip, I cannot agree with him 

 when he says in the diagnosis of the Carabidae: »Clypeus 

 concretus, labro nullo« for 1 have always found the upper 

 lip or labrum, well developed, same being turned back. 



Properly seen it is not to be wondered at that only 

 so few species and genera of all the small Carabs, which 

 formerly were reckoned as belonging to the Brachinini group, 



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