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The last of the Patellimaiii, or those which constitute the second 

 general division, have their head suddenly narrowed behind the eyes, 

 and as if distinguished from the thorax by a sort of neck or pedicle. 

 It is frequently small, with very protuberant eyes. In several, the 

 ligula is short, and projects but little beyond the emargination of the 

 nientum. 



Here, the emargination is edentate ; the mandibles are tolerably 

 stout, and the labrum is strongly emarginate and almost bilobate. 

 Such is the 



Pelecium, Kirhy. 



Last joint of the exterior palpi securiform; ligula short; body 

 oblong, narrowest before ; the four first joints of the anterior tarsi of 

 the males in the form of a reversed triangle, furnished with brushes 

 beneath ; the fourth is bifid. 



The species of this and the following subgenus are peculiar to 

 South America*. 



There, the emargination of the mentum presents a tooth; the man- 

 dibles are usually small and moderate in the others. The labrum is 

 entire or but slightly emarginate. 



Some of them approach Pelecium in their exterior palpi, which are 

 also terminated by a larger securiform joint, or one in the form of a 

 reversed triangle. Their head is always small, and the thorax orbi- 

 cular or trapezoidal. 



Cynthia, Lat. — olim Microcephalus, Id. 



The first joints of the anterior tarsi of the males in the form of a 

 reversed triangle and forming the palette : they are provided with a 

 brush underneath, and the fourth is bifid. 



The head and the mandibles are stoutei* in proportion than in the 

 ensuing subgenus. The exterior palpi are less elongated but more 

 compressed at the end. The body is oval, with a trapezoidal thorax 

 wider posteriorly, plane, bordered, and sulcated longitudinally f. 



Panag^us, Lat. 



The palette of the tarsi peculiar to the males formed of the two 

 first joints only. The head is very small compared to the body, and 

 the eyes globular. The mandibles, maxillae and ligula are also very 

 small. The thorax is most generally suborbicular:|:. 



In the following subgenera, which terminate this section, the ex- 

 terior palpi are filiform; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is almost 



* Pelecium cyanipes, Kirby, Lin. Trans. XII, xxi, l. 



t A subgenus founded on certain species from Brazil, which have the appearance 

 of the Abax, Bonelli. 



X Carabus crux-major, Fab. ; Clairv., Entom. Helv. II, xv ; — Carahus notulatus, 

 Fab., — Cychnis reflexxis, Fab.; Oliv., Col. Ill, 35, viii, 77; — Carabus angulatus. 

 Fab. ; Oliv., lb., vii, 76 ; — Panagee a quatre laches, Cuv., Reg. Anim. IV, xiv, 1. 

 See the article Panagee, Encyc. Method., and the Species, Dej., II, p. 283 et 



