228 CLASS TNSECTA. 



oval, with the corslet trapezoidal, wider posteriorly, plane, 

 bordered, and furrowed longitudinally. 



This sub-genus is established on certain Brazilian species, 

 having, as well as the Diclus, the appearance of the Jba.v 

 of Mr. Bonelli. 



Panag.eus, Lat., 



In which the palette of the tarsi, proper to the males, is 

 formed only by the first two articulations. 



The head is very small, comparatively with the body, and 

 the eyes globular. The mandibles, jaws, and tongue are also 

 very small. The corslet is most frequently sub -orbicular.* ' 



In the following sub-genera, and which terminate this 

 section, the external palpi are filiform. The last articulation 

 of the maxillary palpi is almost cylindrical, and the same 

 of the labial is almost ovaliform, or almost in a reversed and 

 elongated cone. The first sub-genus, that of 



LORICERA, Lat, 



Is very remarkable. Its antennae are setaceous, curved, 

 with the second articulation, and the following four shorter 

 than the last, and furnished with bundles of hairs. The 

 mandibles are small. The jaws are barbed externally. The 

 labrum is rounded in front. The labial palpi are longer 

 than the maxillary. The eyes are very much projecting. 

 The corslet is almost orbicular, or heart-formed, broadly 

 truncated, and rounded at the posterior angles. The first 



* Carabus crixx-major. Fab. Clairv. Entom. Helv. II. xv. ; Carabus notu- 

 latus. Fab.; Cychrus refiexus. Fab. Oliv. CoL III. 35, vii.; Carabus 

 angidatus. Fab. Oliv. ibid. vii. 76 ; Panagee a quatre taches, Cuv. Regne 

 An. IV. xiv. 1. See the ?Lri\c\e panagee, of the Encyc.'Method., and the 

 second vol. of the Spec, of Count Dejean, p. 283, and following. 



