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CARABIDvE. LEBIA. 



latter of which is sometimes wanting; body beneath and the 

 legs black. Length 1^ line. 



To receive this species a new genus (Lionychus) has been 

 created by Dr. Wissmann (Stettin Ent. Zeit. 7. 25). The 

 Stettin Catalogue (1852) records this insect as Carabus 4-pustu- 

 latus of Fabricius, but as that author's description and refer- 

 ences are unsatisfactory, I have retained the generally re- 

 ceived name. The species is apparently scarce. Mr. Stephens 

 informs us that it has been taken near London and at Southend. 

 Mr. Wollaston captured a pair near Bridport, Dorset, and a fine 

 series at Slapton Ley, Devon, in May 1852 : these belong to 

 the variety with the humeral spots alone visible. During the 

 month of May in the year 1853, my friends Mr. Wollaston 

 and the Rev. H. Clark, as well as myself, found it in plenty 

 among the fine shingle at the base of the low cliffs eastward of 

 Southend. Among the individuals captured by us, every variety 

 is included. 



Genus 5. LEBIA, Latreille. 



Mentum dente medio nullo. Ligula apice rotundata ; paraglossis 

 coriaceis, ei sub&qualibus, apice singulatim rotundatis. Palpi 

 articulo ultimo subovafoj apice truncato. Tarsi articulo quarto 

 emarginato ; unguiculis pectinatis. 



When Bonelli separated the genera Demetrias and Dromius 

 from Lebia proper, he also divided the latter into Lamprias and 

 Lebia. He took L. cyanocephala as the type to represent the 

 characters of the former, which he stated to consist in the penul- 

 timate joint of the tarsi being simple, the antennae linear, and 

 the last joint of the palpi truncate; and as the type of the 

 latter he took L. crux-minor, having the penultimate joint of the 

 tarsi bifid, the antennae more slender at the base, and the last 

 joint of the palpi less truncate. Upon a close examination, 

 however, of the different species of Lebia, it did not appear that 

 these characters held good ; for even in L. cyanocephala, the 

 type of the genus Lamprias, the penultimate joint of the tarsi is 

 not simple, but bifid ; neither is it simple in any of the others, 

 though in some it is difficult to decide whether it is bifid or bi- 

 lobed; and as the two remaining characters assigned by Bonelli 

 appeared altogether too vague to warrant the creation of a new 

 genus, M. Dejean once more reunited the Lamprias and Lebia 

 of Bonelli under the original name Lebia*, an arrangement 

 which has now been adopted generally by the continental ento- 

 mologists. 



* Dejean, Iconographie, vol. i. p. 132. 



