INSECT A. 547 



Blethisa BONELLI (Blethisa and Pelophila DEJ.). 



Notiophilus DUMERIL. Labrum rotundate. Anterior tarsi of 

 male with first joints scarcely dilated. 



Sp. Elaphrus aquaticus FABR., Cicindela aquatica L., PANZER Deutschl. Ins. 

 Heft 20, Tab. 3. 



Omophron LATR., Scolytus FABR. Labrum transverse, slightly 

 biimuate. Anterior tarsi of male with two first joints dilated, 

 densely spongy beneath. Body subglobose, with thorax short, 

 transverse, covering scutellum. Feet elongate, thin. 



Sp. Omophron limbatum LATR., DUMERIL Cons. gn. s. I. Ins. PL 2, fig. 2, 

 STURM D. Fauna, Ins. vn. Tab. 184. (Genus allied to the Dytisci ; 

 DESMAREST has observed the larva ; see STURM Tab. cit.) 



Nebria LATR, 

 Alpceus BONELLI. 



Leistus FROELICH, PogonopJiorus LATR. 



Sp. Leistus spinibarbis, Carab. spinibarbis FABR., PANZER Deutsckl. Ins. 

 Heft 89, Tab. 2, STURM D. Fauna, Ins. in. Tab. 70, &c. 



Carabus L., (in part). Labrum bilobed, sinuate in the middle, 

 jabial and external maxillary palps elongate, exsert, with last 

 Dint obconical or subsecuriform. Tibiae with two terminal spines. 

 Interior tarsi of male with four first joints dilated, spongy beneath. 



Calosoma WEBER, FABR. Labrum deeply sinuate in the middle. 

 Mentum with lateral lobes exceeding the middle process. Thorax 

 short, transversely obcordate. Abdomen quadrate, with rounded 

 angles. Wings mostly distinct. 



Sp. Carabus sycophanta L., VOET Col. I. Tab. 37, fig. 32, DUMERIL, Cons. 

 gn. s. I. Ins. PL i, fig. 4, STURM D. Fauna, Ins. in. Tab. 66, fig. a. 

 One of our most beautiful native insects, nearly one inch long ; head and 

 feet black, thorax violet-steel coloured, the shield-covers gold-green and 

 striated. Both in the state of larva and beetle it belongs to the useful 

 insects from devouring various kinds of caterpillars. See REAUMUR Mem. 

 n. pp. 455 458, PI. 37, figs. 14 19, RATZEB. Forst-Ins. I. pp. 22 24, 

 26, 27, Tab. i, fig. u. 



Carabus LATR. Labrum broadly sinuate in the middle. Mentum 

 with middle triangular process extending beyond the lateral lobes. 

 Thorax quadrate, with margins rounded, or obcordate. Abdomen 

 oval. Wings either none or unfit for flight. 



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