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and finally, for their tongue, which is advanced and termi- 

 nated by three spines. Their head is suddenly narrowed 

 behind the eyes_, and the articulations of their antennae are 

 long and slender. All the known species are European.* 



Nebria, Lat. 



Which do not differ from pogonophorus, but in negative 

 characters, or in that the palpi are much shorter, that the 

 external side of the mandibles is little or not at all dilated, 

 and forms only a very small auricle, not advancing beyond 

 the basis of the jaws ; that the tongue is short, and the head 

 presents no vestiges of a neck. The antennas are also propor- 

 tionally more thickj and composed of shorter articulations.-f- 



Alp.eus, of M. Bonelli. 



Are only apterous nebriae, a little more oblong, and which 

 more especially inhabit the high mountains. (C. Helwigii, 

 of Panzer, Faun. Insect. Germ. LXXXIX. 4, is an Alpseus. 

 See the Spec, of M. Dejean, p. 22, et seq.) 



Sometimes the body convex, or gibbous above, is almost 

 orbicular, with the corslet very short, transverse, very much 

 emarginated in front, wider, and lobate posteriorly. The 

 sentellum is not apparent. The first articulation of the two 

 anterior tarsi of the males, and sometimes the same of the 



• Carahm spinibarbis. Fab.; Leistus cceruleus, Clairv. Entom. Helv. II. 

 xxiii. A. a. ; C. Spinilabrh, Fab. ; Leistus rufescens, ibid. B. b.; C. rufescens. 

 Fab. ; Carabus terminatus, Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. VII. ii. See for the 

 other species the second volume of the Spec, of Count Dejean, p. li2, 

 et seq. 



■)• Nebria arenaria, Lat. Gen. Crust, et Insect. I 2. vii. 6; Carabus bre- 

 vicolUs, Fab. Panz, ibid. XI. 8 ; Clairv. ibid. 1. XXII. B; C. Sabulosus, Fab. 

 Clairv. ibid. A. Panz. ibid. XXXI. 4 ; C. picicornis, Fab. Panz. ibid. XCII. 

 1 ; C. psammodes, Ross. Faun. Etrusc. Mant. I. v. M. 



