Carabus. COLEOPTERA. 83 



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cy of the eyes, and the roundnefs of its tho- 

 rax : The fame knob is found at the bafe 06 

 the thighs of the Silpha, and fome other infects* 



The fame author afferts, that the antennae in 

 this genus, and likewife in the Cicindela, are fili- 

 form rather than fetaceous, which is fometimes 

 obfervable in European fubje&s, but generally 

 in thofe as well as in exotic ones, they taper to- 

 wards the point. 



Schaeffer obferves 1 , that the head of the Cara- 

 bus is prominent, the mouth armecf with jaws, 

 and four articulated palpi, and that the feet are 

 made for running. The tarfi in all the feet are 

 compofed of five articulations. 



Scopoli, who divides this genus into families' 

 from the fame circumftance as Linnaeus, fixes 

 the length of the firft or greater ones at feven 

 lines. 



The larvae of the Garabi live in the ground 

 or in decayed wood, where they perform their 

 metamorphofis •, they themfelves live chiefly on 4 

 weaker infects, or fmall larvae'. 



The name of Ground Beetle has been given by 

 fome authors to the Carabus \ others have cal- 

 led it the Blaine Worm. 



F 2 Genus' 



