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Near the dapti appears to come the genus pangus of M . 

 Megerle, mentioned by M. le Comte Dejean, in the cata- 

 logue of his collection of coleoptera. 



After studying one {Pensylvanicus) of the two species, 

 which the latter refers to that genus, I have not been able 

 to discover the characters which distinguish this section from 

 the preceding. 



The second division is composed of harpali, also having 

 the emargination of the chin vmindented, but whose body, 

 more or less ovaliform or ovoid, is more narrow in front, 

 and the labrum is entire, or merely a little concave. These 

 are : — 



Harpalus, Dej. 



A species the most common throughout all Europe, is Ca- 

 rahus ceneus (Fab. Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. LXXV. 3, 4.) 

 Its body is almost four lines long, of a shining black, with 

 the antennae and the feet fawn-colour. The upper part of 

 the corslet, and of the elytra, are most frequently green or 

 coppery, and brilliant, and sometimes of a blueish black. 

 The corslet is transverse, narrowed behind, finely edged on 

 the sides, and at the posterior edge, with a punctuated sink- 

 ing on each side, near the posterior angles. The elytra are 

 striated, have an incision near their end, and small points 

 sunk in the intervals of the external striae. It has also re- 

 ceived the name of Proteus, in consequence of the numerous 

 changes in its colours.* 



* See, for the species, the Catalogue of the Collection of M. le Comte 

 Dejean, genus Harpalus, p. 14, and for their synonimy, Schcenherr, Syno- 

 nimia Insectorum, and the Fauna of Austria, of M. Duftschniid. Fabri- 

 cius has described but a small number, and among those we shall cite 

 what he names : caliginostts, ruficornis, binotatus, tardus, heros, analis, Jlavi- 

 labris, Sfc, The carabus signatus, hirtipes of Panzer, also form a part of 

 this sub-genus. 



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