230 CLASS INSECTA. 



The third and last division of the grandipalpi presents an 

 assemblage of characters which mark it distinctly from the 

 preceding. The most part of them have wings. The 

 anterior tarsi of the males are always dilated. The labrum 

 is entire. The external palpi are merely a little dilated, or a 

 little thicker towards their extremity, with the last articula- 

 tion in the form of a reversed and elongated cone. The in- 

 ternal side of the mandibles presents no notable teeth. That 

 of the middle of the emargination of the chin is bifid. The 

 middle of the upper edge of the tongue rises into a point. 

 The anterior limbs of many have at the interior side a short 

 emargination, or one of the two spurs inserted above the other, 

 so that in this point of view these carabici are ambiguous, 

 and may come, as well as those of the following section, im- 

 mediately after the patellimani. They generally frequent 

 humid and watery places. Some of them, such as Oma- 

 phron, seem even to unite this tribe with the following, or 

 the aquatic carnivora. 



Some, whose body is flatted, or gibbous and orbicular, have 

 eyes of the usual size, the antennae linear, and composed of 

 articulations generally elongated, and almost cylindrical, the 

 external side of the jaws barbed, and the two internal spurs 

 of the two anterior limbs on a level from their origin. These 

 legs have but a simple longitudinal canal. 



Sometimes the body is of an oblong oval, flatted, with the 

 corslet in the form of a truncated heart, narrowed behind. 

 The sentellum is distinct. The first three articulations of the 

 anterior tarsi of the males are dilated. 



PoGoxoPHORUs, Lat. Gyll. Leishcss, Froel. Clairv. Carahus, 

 Fab. Manticora, Panz. 



Remarkable for the elongation of their external palpi, and 

 the labial being longer than the head ; for their mandibles, 

 the external side of which forms a salient and flatted angle ; 



