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explodens of Duftschmid — Hist, Nat. des Colcop. d’Eur., II, 
viii, 7 — which is also very common. It is but half the size of 
the crepitus, with blue and almost smooth elytra. The glahratus, 
Bonelli, only differs from it in the absence of the spots on the 
antennae. 
Brack, sclopefa, Fab. ; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d’Eur., H, ix, 3. 
Very similar to the last, but distinguished from it as well as 
from the preceding ones by the suture of the elytra, which is 
fulvous-red from the base to the middle. The body also is 
wider in proportion, and of the same colour above and beneath. 
Brack, bombarcla, Illig. ; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d’Eur., H, ix, 
2. This species is intermediate between the last and the first. 
A fulvous sprout surrounds the scutellum, but does not extend 
along the suture. 
Brack, exkalans, with, elytra of an obscure blue, and four yel- 
lowish sjDots, and Brack, causticus, all fulvous, with a band along 
the suture and posterior spot blackish — are found in the depart- 
ment of Herault*. 
In the Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d’Eur., we placed the genus Catas ■ 
copus of Kirby next to Brachinus. A more recent examination 
leads us to think that it rather belongs to the Simplicimani. The 
posterior extremity of the elytra, it is true, does offer a deep emargi- 
nation, but it terminates in a point towards the suture, and is not 
truncated. Several species of this division also present the same 
sinus, though less deep and acute. 
Between the Brachini and the Catascopi, Count Dejean — Species 
I, p. 226 — places the genus Corsyra of Steven, the type of which is 
the Cyminclis fusula of the Russ. Entomog., of Fischer, I, xii, 3. It 
differs from the latter in its tarsi, the hooks of which are simjjle. 
The body also is flattened, as in the preceding and other neighbouring 
subgenera, tolerably broad, with filiform palpi, unidentated mentum 
and transverse labrum ; the thorax is wider than the head, and nearly 
semi-orbicular. 
But one species is known. 
The other Carabici of the same division with equally simple hooks 
are removed from the preceding by the form of their head, which is 
suddenly narrowed immediately after its origin, presenting the ap- 
pearance of a neck or rotula. 
First come those in which the tarsi of both sexes are identical, sub- 
cylindrical or linear, and whose penultimate joint, at most, is deeply 
notched or bilobate. 
Sometimes the exterior palj)i are filiform or but slightly enlarged 
at the end, with the last joint verging to an oval; the head has the 
same form and becomes gradually narrowed behind the eyes. The 
first joint of the antennae is always short or but slightly elongated. 
The thorax is always narrow and elongated. The body is thick. 
* See op. cit. ut sup. Add of American species Brack, alternans, quadripennis, 
fumans, cephalotes. 
