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with brilliant colours, and at the first glance resemble Cicindelse or 
Elaphri *. 
There, the length of the third joint or the antennae is triple, or 
nearly so, of that of the preceding one. These organs, as well as the 
legs, are generally slender. 
In these, the four first joints of the anterior tarsi in the males are 
wide, and the penultimate is bilobate. 
CoLPODEs, Mac Leay, 
This subgenus established by Mac Leay, Jun. — Annul. Javan,, I, 
p. 17, pi. i, f. 3 — appears to be allied in many points to Catascopus 
and the following subgenera. According to him, the labrum is a 
transverse square, and entire, the emargination of the mentum simple 
or edentate, and the head almost the length of the thorax. The 
latter is nearly in the form of a truncated cone, emarginate before, with 
rounded and slightly bordered sides. The elytra are slightly emar- 
ginate. The lobes of the penultimate joint of the anterior tarsi of 
the male are the largest. The body is somewhat convex. He quotes 
but a single species, the hrunneus. 
In those, all the joints of the tarsi, in both sexes, are entire. 
Mormolyce, Hagemb. 
The body strongly flattened, foliaceous, and its anterior half much 
the narrowest ; head very long, narrow, and almost cylindrical; tho- 
rax oval and truncated at both ends ; elytra greatly dilated, and arcu- 
ated exteriorly, — their internal side, near the extremity, profoundly 
emarginate. 
The only species known — phyllodes — is found in Java, and 
forms the subject of a Monograph published by M. Hagem- 
bach. 
* This subgenus was established by M. Kirby on one of the Carabici (Catascopus 
IJardivickii, Trans. Lin. Soc. XIV, iii, 1 ; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d’Eur. II, vii. 8) 
of the East Indies, which has a green head and thorax, the elytra of a greenish-blue 
with punctuated striae, and the under part of the body almost blackish. M. Mac 
Leay, Jun. — Annul. Javan. I, p. 14 — places the Catascopi in his family of the Har- 
palides, directly after the Chlaenii, and refers to it the C. elegans, Fab., which M. 
Weber arranges with the Elaphri. He distinguishes, them from another neighbour- 
ing subgenus, which he establishes under the name of Pericalus, by the antennae, the 
second and third joints of which are nearly equal in length, whilst here the third is 
the longest ; by the mandibles which are short, thick, and curved, instead of being 
directed forwards and nearly parallel ; by the palpi which are short, thick, with the 
last joint ovoid and almost truncated, w hilst those of the Pericali are slender and cy- 
lindrical ; and finally by the head, which is wider than the thorax, a circumstance 
that does not occur in the Catascopi. Besides this, the eyes of the Periccdi are very 
globular and protuberant, giving them some resemblance to the Elaphri and Cicin- 
delae. He describes but one species — Pericalus cicindeloides, 1,2; we are still, how- 
ever, ignorant of their sexual difference, particularly as respects the tarsi. The form 
of the ligula of the Catascopi and that of theii- tibiae remove them from Elaphrus and 
Tachys. These insects approximate most nearly to the Chlaenii, Anchomeni, Sphodri, 
&c. Several of the Simplicimani have the extremity of their elytra strongly sinuous, 
and in this respect are hardly distinguished from the Truncatipemess. 
