COLEOPTERA. 39'7 
The last of the Patellimani, or those Avhich constitute the second 
general division, have their head suddenly narroAved behind the eyes, 
and as if distinguished from the thorax by a sort of neck or pedicle. 
It is frequently small, ^ Avith very protuberant eyes. In several, the 
ligula is short, and projects but little beyond the emargination of the 
nientum. 
Here, the emargination is edentate ; the mandibles are tolerably 
stout, and the labrum is strongly emarginate and almost bilobate. 
Such is the 
Pelecium, Kirby. 
Last joint of the exterior palpi securiform; ligula short; body 
oblong, narroAvest before ; the four first joints of the anterior tarsi of 
the males in the form of a reversed triangle, furnished Avith brushes 
beneath ; the fourth is bifid. 
The species of this and the folloAving subgenus are peculiar to 
South America*. 
There, the emargination of the mentum presents a tooth; the man- 
dibles are usually small and moderate in the others. The labrum is 
entire or but slightly emarginate. 
Some of them approach Pelecium in their exterior palpi, Avhich are 
also terminated by a larger securiform joint, or one in the form of a 
reversed triangle. Their head is ahvays small, and the thorax orbi- 
cular or trapezoidal. 
Cynthia, Lat. — olim Microcephalus, Id. 
The first joints of the anterior tarsi of the males in the form of a 
reversed triangle and forming the palette : they are provided Avith a 
brush underneath, and the fourth is bifid. 
The head and the mandibles are stoutei’ in proportion than in the 
ensuing subgenus. The exterior palpi are less elongated but more 
compressed at the end. The body is o\'al, Avith a trapezoidal thorax 
Avider posteriorly, plane, bordered, and sulcated longitudinally}-. 
PANAG.EUS, Lat. 
The palette of the tarsi peculiar to the males formed of the tAvo 
first joints only. The head is very small compared to the body, and 
the eyes globular. The mandibles, maxillae and ligula are also A^ery 
small. The thorax is most generally suborbicular J. 
In the folloAA’ing subgenera, Avhich terminate this section, the ex- 
terior palpi are filiform ; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is almost 
• Pelecium cyanipes, Kirby, Lin. Trans, XII, xxi, 1. 
•t A subgenus founded on certain species from Brazil, which have the appearance 
of the Abax, Bonelli. 
J Carabus crux-major, Fab. ; Clairv., Entom. Helv. II, xv ; — Carabus notulatus, 
Fab., — Cychrus refexus, Fab,; Oliv., Col. Ill, 35, viii, 77; — Carabus angulatus, 
Fab. ; Oliv., Ib., vii, 76 ; — Panagee a quatre (aches, Cuv., Reg. Anim. IV, xiv, 1. 
See the article Panagee, Encyc. Method,, and the Species, Dej., II, p. 283 et 
seq. 
