coleoptera. 
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Sphodrus, Clair. Bon, — Lcemosthenus, Bon. — Carabus, Lin. 
The body depressed but not foliaceous ; head ovoid ; thorax cordi- 
form; elytra without any exterior dilatation or internal emargination. 
Several of these Insects live in cellars * * * § . 
The last of the Simplicimani are distinguished from all the others 
by the internal dentations of the terminal hooks of their tarsi. 
All the exterior palpi, of some, are filiform ; their thorax is either 
in the form of a heart, narrowed and truncated posteriorly, or in 
that of a trapezium widening from before backwards. 
Ctenipus, Lat. (a) — Lcemosthenus, Bo?i. 
The body straight and elongated, thorax cordiform, narrowed and 
truncated posteriorly; third joint of the antennae elongated f. 
Calathus Bo?i. 
The body oval and arcuated above ; thorax square or trapezoidal, 
wider posteriorly 
The labial palpi of the others have a clavate termination, in the 
form of a top or reversed cone, and a nearly orbicular thorax. 
Taphria, Bon. — Synuchus, Gyll. 
Emargination of the mentum bidentate, as in the preceding sub- 
genera §. 
5. The fifth section, that of the Patellimani, is only distinguished 
from the fourth, by the manner in which the two anterior tarsi of the 
males are dilated; the first joints — usually the three first, then the 
fourth, and sometimes only the two first — all of which are sometimes 
square, and at others only in part, the remainder being cordiform, 
or resembling a reversed triangle, but always rounded at their extre- 
mity, and not terminated as in the preceding sections by acute an- 
gles, form an orbicular palette or long square, the inferior surface of 
which is usually furnished with brushes or crowded papillae, without 
any intermediate vacancy. 
The legs are generally slender and elongated, and the thorax is 
frequently narrower than the abdomen, throughout its whole length. 
Most of them frequent the shores of rivers, or other aquatic localities. 
* Carabus leucopfhalmus, L. ; Carabus jilanus, Fab. ; Panz. Faun. Insect Germ. 
XI, 4. In tbe Sphodrus terricola — Carabus ferricola, Payk. ; Oiiv., Col. Ill, XXXV, 
ii, 124 — the hooks of the tarsi present some small dentations, as in the following 
subgenus. 
t The Sphodri janthinus, complanatus, and several others of Count Dejean, which 
are distinguished from the true Sphodri by the abbreviation of the third joint of the 
antennaj, and by the dentations of the hooks of the tarsi. These two subgcnera are 
almost insensibly confounded with each other. M. Fischer has figured several spe- 
cies of both under the generic appellation of Sphodrus in his Entom. Russ, ^'ol. II. 
X Carabus mtlanocephulus, Fab.; Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ. XXX, 19; — C. cis- 
teloides, Ib., XI, 12; — C. fuscus, Fab.; — C. friyidus, Id. See the Catalogue, &c. 
Dej., and the Insect. Spec. Nov., Germar, I, p. 13. 
§ Carabus rivalis, Illig. ; Panz. Ib. XXXVII, 19. 
(a) Formerly Ctenipus, Lat., who recommends the substitution of the above 
name for his own, as we have already the genus Clenopus. — Eng. Ed, 
