50 ANNULOSA JAVANICA. 



The apparently dimerous tarsi of the Pstlaphidae are not of themselves alone sufficient to throw 

 these insects out of the stirps, for we may perceive the articulations of the tarsi to disappear 

 in Oxi/telus and several genera of the neighbouring family, which the Tarsal System with its 

 usual inconsistency, places widely apart from the Pselaphidce. 



From the Omalidce by means of the genus Lesteva, we return to the Geodephaga into which 

 stirps we enter by Lebia „and other of the jBrachinidce, a family of which the distinguishing or 

 typical character depends on an approach to the short truncated elytra of the Brachelytra. In 

 Lesteva, moreover, and such other genera of this stirps as come nearest to the Geodephaga, the 

 outer process of the maxilla is slender and palpiform. So it is that, whether nature be regarded 

 at the root or at the extreme branches of her tree, we always find her pursuing the same plan, 

 and constantly displaying as much unity as beauty. 



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