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Part IL— NATURAL SCIENCE. 



SUPPLEMENT.-1890. 



1 — Catalogue of the Inaecta of the Oriental Region. No. 2, Order 

 Coleoptera, Family Carabidae. — By E. T. Atkinson, B. A, 



Dr. Horn writes that the Carabidm form one of the membors of the 

 Adephagoas series of Coleoptera, which * is readily recognized by the 

 predaceous character of its mouth parts, its slender antennae (except in 

 the Gyrinidce), peutamerous tarsi, and the structure of the first 

 abdominal segment, which is in all cases divided or hidden by the posterior 

 coxae in such a manner that it is entirely lateral, rarely appearing as 

 a small triangular piece between the posterior coxae.' 



The classification of the Carabidas is still unsettled, and, notwithstand- 

 ing the very great attentiou paid to this group, there is no generally 

 recognized arrangement that can be followed for the species of the 

 Oriental Region. The number of groups, their extent, relative position, 

 and nomenclature, still leave much to be desired. Leconte, t writing in 

 1862, remarked: — * Numerous eflforts have been made to indicate a 

 rational distribution of the genera, and the attempts commenced by 

 Latreille and Bonelll, and successively improved by the suggestions of 

 Dejean, Erichson, Schiodte, Lacordaire, and myself, have finally, in the 

 expert hands of Schaum, * assumed a form in which probably permanent 

 results have been obtained/ 



t ' Classificatio* of the Coleoptera of North America,' in Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections, 1862. 



• Naturg. Ins. Deutschl. I860, and ' Daa system der Carabiciaen,* la Berlin, Ent, 

 Zeits., iv, 1860, p. 161. 



