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BADISTER CEPHALOTES. 
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Order Coleoptera. Fam. Carabidse Lat. 9 Leach . 
Type of the Genus Carabus bipustulatus Fab, 
Badister Clairv., Lat., Panz ., Bonel., Leach, Sturm, Dej. — Ambly- 
chus Gyll . — Carabus Fab., Marsh. 
Antenna inserted before the eyes, at the base of the mandibles, 
filiform 1 1 -jointed, basal joint slightly robust, naked, 2nd minute, 
the remainder pubescent nearly of equal length except the last 
which is longer and ovate (fig. 6). 
Labrum transverse bilobed, being deeply emarginate, with a few 
very long bristles at the apex ( 1 ) . 
Mandibles robust, bent, obtuse, emarginate at the apex, dilated 
at the base (2), one with a tooth on the internal edge. 
Maxilla small, bent, acute, strongly ciliated on the internal 
margin. Palpi 2, internal not extending beyond the apex of the 
maxilla, compressed, 2-jointed, terminal joint conical ; external 
very long, 4-jointed, 1st joint small, 2nd long robust, 3rd 
clavate, 4th robust elongate conic (3). 
Mentum transverse bilobed, lobes small. Palpi long, arising 
from scapes, 3-jointed, basal joint small, 2nd long with two 
bristles on the internal side, 3rd long robust, sub-obovate, pilose. 
Lip extending beyond the 1st joint of the palpi, bilobed and pro- 
duced in the centre (4) . 
Head ovate. Eyes small, lateral. Neck none. Thorax quadrate (9), 
or subcordate, angles rounded, anterior margin concave, posterior 
straight, with two fovece at the base. Body depressed. Scutellum 
triangular. Elytra not sinuated at their extremity. Wings two. 
Tibiae, anterior emarginate, spined. Tarsi 5-; jointed , anterior with 
the three first joints dilated in the males (5, fore leg of a male). 
Cephalotes Dej. Spec. Coleop. t. 2, p. 406, n. 1. — Megacephalus 
Kirby's MSS. 
Smooth, shining, rufous ochre. Head large, nearly as broad as 
the thorax, black; trophi ochraceous, antennae of the same colour, 
the 2nd and two or three following joints piceous. Thorax rather 
broader than the head, short, narrowed behind, with a channel 
down the centre and a fovea near each posterior angle. Elytra 
with a slight cyaneous gloss and eight striae on each elytron, 
that next the suture being divided at its origin, the 3rd and 4th, 
5th and 6th being united at their termination, posterior portion 
black, the suture, external margin, and a sublunular spot towards 
the apex, extending nearly across, the same colour as the anterior 
part. 
In the Cabinets of Mr. Kirby and the Author . 
