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identifiable, and I have been told that it figures among the folktales of 
natives of some parts of India. The Scaritince have a distinct facies 
(Plate XVI, Fig. 4), and are further marked by their pedunculate pro¬ 
thorax and enlarged digging legs, similar to those of the Coprides. 
They are black insects, some quite small, others of moderate size, and 
are, so far as is known, wholly digging insects. Some are diurnal, some 
nocturnal, and while most are predaceous, some appears to feed on 
decaying animal matter. Clivina is one of the larger Indian genera, 
with many Indian species. 
Collecting.—Carabids are sufficiently abundant to be readily found and 
collected. They must never be put living with other insects but kept 
apart or killed at once with benzene. In this group, details of the food of 
the beetles is much wanted ; every larva found should be reared, feeding 
it on living insects ; though the beetles are extremely numerous, few larvae 
are known and fewer still have been reared. Attempts to rear Antlnia 
have failed, though their eggs were obtained and it will probably be 
more satisfactory to rear from captured larvae. These should be care¬ 
fully sought fot whenever caterpillars are abundant, as they collect at 
such spots. Larvae are best preserved in formalin. 
Paussid^e. 
A family of small beetles most readily recognised by the extraordinary 
form of the antennce, which are usually very large , as well as by the 
truncate elytra which usually leave the pygidium exposed. Tarsi 
five-jointed. 
These remarkable beetles are of small size, generally near to one- 
quarter of an inch long, coloured almost wholly in red-brown and black. 
The head bears the remarkable antennae and the somewhat reduced 
mouth-parts ; the former have two, six or ten joints ; in many cases 
there is a small basal joint and a single large leaflike apical 
joint; in others the expanded part consists of the apical five 
joints. The prothorax is well developed and of varied form ; the 
elytra are parallel-sided and truncate behind, the pygidium visible 
in most species. The legs are of varied form, sometimes expanded and 
leaflike, usually slender and formed for walking. 
