34. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. V. _ [September 1882. 
Mentum small, four-toothed, broadly rounded anteriorily and _trian- 
gularly pointed posteriorly; ligula with lateral sides subparallel, terminat- 
ing into a truncate triangle with one seta at middle of apex and supporting 
the two-jointed stout labial palpus, first joint clavate, second oblong ovate, 
both longer and stouter than the maxillar palpus 
Prothorax transverse, narrowed in front, broader than the head, 
sides margined, 
Meso- and Metathorax shorter, than the prothorax, but broader, sides 
parallel with depressions near the anterior angles. 
Scutes of abdominal segments 1-7 of nearly equal breadth with round- 
ed angles, impressions and foveze near the anterior angles, the posterior 
margin very broadly elevated; the hind angles of the eighth segment are 
rectangular, those of the ninth acuminate, anal fork straight with uneven 
outlines and three bristles on the outer side. 
Legs set with interspersed spines. 
Spiracles nine, those of the thorax much larger than the seven ab- 
dominal ones. . 
The pupa is yellowish white, 18 mm long, arcuate, very narrowed 
towards the apex, the five first abdominal segments are clothed abcve 
with a long brush of hair, the last segment has two sharp pointed teeth at 
the posterior margin, for the rest, it has the same general appearance as 
the other larvee of Carabide. 
Just while I was writing the above description, Mr. E. A. Schwarz of 
Washington had the kindness to send me his copy of Schicedte’s Descrip- 
tions of larvae, published in Kroyers Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift in Copen- 
hagen. 
At a former occasion I spoke in the BuLietin of the excellency of 
the illustrations contained in this paper, but now I had the pleasure to 
read those elaborate descriptions, which are as excellent as the plates. 
What an amount of work! With great trouble I succeed to raise every 
summer a few species from the larvae, usually very rare; and I am unable 
to determine to what genus a larva may possibly belong and in Schioedte’s 
work I find an excellent synopsis of the larval characters of about thirty 
genera of Carabidze, as Cicindela, Omophron, Elaphrus, Notiophilus, 
Nebria, Leistus, Cychrus, Calosoma, Carabus, Loricera, Scarites, Dys- 
chirius, Anchomenus, (Platynus) Pterostichus, Broscus, Amara, Chleeni- 
us, Stenolophus, Bradycellus, Patrobus, Bembidium ete. 
