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to differ from any species of known Carabus, I 

 make the type of a sub-genus, naming it Apoto- 

 mopterus, from a7TOTOfjLos, broken off, and irrepov, 

 the apex of the elytra having the appearance of 

 having been abruptly broken off. Vid. Act. Acad. 

 Cses. Leop. Carol. Nat. Cur. Vol. 16, Suppl. Table 

 37, figure 1. Mr. Kirby in his Fauna Boreali Ame- 

 rica, forms a sub-genus (named by him Chrysostig- 

 ma) of some of the species belonging to Calosoma. 

 The type of the latter is Sycophanta, of the former 

 C. Calidum, Fab. ; for the characteristic distinctions 

 the reader is referred to the above-mentioned work, 

 page 18. 



Sp. 2. Granulaius. — Now a Carabus of authors. 

 The granulatus of our English Cabinets is not the 

 same as the C. granulatus of the French collections, 

 the latter appears to be found in the South of France, 

 and is never met with in the British Isles. 



Different writers have attempted to form the 

 species of Carabus into sections, which I shall not 

 here introduce, as they require very considerable 

 alteration. In the Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, 

 par Audouin et Brulle, when speaking of the grand 

 Carabi, the following statement occurs, " pendant 

 long temps on a pense quel n' en existait pas das 

 l'Amerique Meridionale depuis les Voyages du 



