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the larva has mo tracheal closing apparatus "). The eighth 
abdominal segment is sharply cut in back, and the tergits and 
pleuræ form together a large slightly excavated bowl (Fig. 4 and 
Fig. 7) which is on the inside wholly covered with glands and 
possesses on the edge two kinds of trichomes, some of them slender 
and pointed, others short and thick. The ninth abdominal seg- 
ment has the shape of a small analprocess (abs IX). The limbs 
(Fig. 8) which consist of four joints are curved upwards. The last 
joint is claw-shaped (Fig. 11); the next is the most peculiar, being 
closely covered with long stiff bristles on both sides and on the 
underside; only the upperside is hairless. 
The whole body of the larva is much like that of the Carabi, 
but in several Ways it is entirely differently builded as to the con- 
struction of the mandibles, the legs and the eighth abdominal 
segment, and the larva can not be called carabiform at all, though, 
on the other side, it has to belong to the Coleoptera adephaga 
just like the carabiform larvæ. 
The larvæ which Erichson (Wiegmanns Archiv f. Natur- 
geschichte, Vol. XIII, 1847) and Xambeu (Mæurs et métamor- 
phoses d'insectes, Lyon 1893) supposed to be those of the Paussidæ 
must absolutely be referred to other Coleoptera. Capt. W. I. E. 
Boyes has not described any Paussus-larva in the paper: ,,Extract 
from note book regarding the genus Paussus" (in ,,Journal of the 
asiatic society of Bengal, Vol. XII, Pars. I, 1843, pg. 421). 
1) Cfr. A. G. Bøving: Bidrag til SSG UV ggg: om Donaciinlarvernes 
Naturhistorie. København. 1906. pg. 204. 
