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BRITISH BEETLES. 
daintily almost in the water, and are curiously marked 
with circular depressions. 
The Loricerirm contain the single genus Loricera, 
which is an exceedingly common insect, and is re- 
markable for its antennas being adorned with long stiff 
hairs. 
The Scaritina (represented in England by a few 
small species) may be distinguished by their elongate, 
cylindrical shape; the separation of their thorax from 
the elytra by a neck ; the enlargement and palmation 
of their front tibiae, which are often toothed on the 
outer edge, and are fossorial, or adapted for digging ; 
the non-dilatation of the basal joints of the front tarsi 
in the male ; and the shortness, and comparatively 
bead-like joints, of their antennae. We possess only 
two genera of this family; one, Clivina (Plate I., 
Fig. 4, C. collaris), the species of which frequent garden 
refuse ; and the other, Vyschirius, consisting of minute, 
brassy, cylindrical, sand-burrowing beetles. None of 
these are either conspicuous, likely to be casually 
observed, or peculiar in habits ; except, perhaps, that 
some of them live in large colonies on the sea-shore, 
and appear to be often found with Bledius (a genus of 
Brachelytra ) , upon small species of which they are 
supposed to prey. An exhaustive monograph has been 
written by Mons. J. Putzeys (Mon. des Clivina, &c., 
1846) upon these insects. 
The Harpalinas may be divided into two divi- 
sions, the Intruncatipennes and the Truncatipennes ; 
in the former of these the elytra are not truncate at 
apex, whereas in the latter they are more or less 
truncate. Mr. Bates, who is the chief living authority 
on the Carabida), divides the first of these divisions into 
