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Show 268 JNSF.CT A. the body, which is somewhat narrowed, terminat~s by a qua. driarticulated appendage. I could find hut two in that of the larvre of Licinus and H arpalus. In this family, we always observe a first, short and fleshy stomach; a second, elongated, and from the number of small vessels with which it is covered cxterna11y, apparently hairy. and a short and slender intestine. The hepatic vessels, fou; in number, are inserted ncar the pylorus. Some are aquatic, others terrestrial. The latter have legs exclusively adapted for running, the four posterior of which arc inserted at equal distances; man· dibles completely "exposed; the terminal piece of the max. illre straight inferiorly, and only curved at its extremity; and most frequently an oblong body with projecting eyes. All their trachcm are tubular or elastic. Their intestine termi· nates in a widened cloaca, furnished with two sm.a ll sacs ' which separate an acrid humour(l ). ( 1) M. Leon Dufour, Ann. des Sc. Nat., VIII, p. 36, gives the following resume of the anatomical characters of the Insects of this division: "The Carubici are hunters and carnivorous. The length of their alimentary canal is not more than twice that of the body. The wsopltagtUJ is short; itisfol. lowed by a musculo-membranous, very dilatable, well developed crop; then comes an oval or rounded gizzard with cellular and elastic parietes, armed internally with movable horny appendages fitted for grinding, and ful'nished with a valve at each orifice. The cltilific ventricle which succeeds to it is of a soft expansile texture, a!. ways studded with larger or smaller papillre, and narrowed behind. The smallintu. tine is short. The caJcum has the form of a crop. The rectum is short in both sexe~ The ltepatic ve8sela, but two in number, describe various arcs in their fiexures,and are implanted by four separate insertions, around the termination of the cbylific ventricle. The testes are (each) formed by the agglomerated circumvolutions of a single spermatic ve8sel, sometimes almost nn.kcd, and at others invested by an adi· pose layer, a sort of tunica vaginalis. The vasa deferentia are often folded into an epididymus. The vesicula! seminales, only two in number, are filiform. The duciUJ jaculans is short, the penis slender and elongated, and the copulating armaiurt more or less complicated. Th~ ovarie8 have but from seven to twelve .ovigerous sheaths to each, multilocular, and united in a single conoid fasciculus. Theori· duct is short. The sebaceous gland is composed of a secreting vessel, sometimes filiform, and at others enlarged at the extremity, and of a reservoir. The vt~lva it provided with two retractile hooks. The ova form dblong ovals. The presence of a secreting excremental apparatus is one of the most striking characters in the anatomy of all the Carabici. It con~ists of one or several clusters of secretory ul~· wli, the form of which vat·:es according to the gen}ls; of a long vas ejJercm; of a COLJ<:OPTEUA. 26~ They are ~ivided· into two tribes. The first or the CICIN· uELET£, Lat., comprises th~ genus CICINDELA, Lin., In which the ~xtremity of t~e maxillre is provided with a little nail articulated with it by its base. The head is large, with great eyes, and very projecting and dentated mandibles; the very short ligula is concealed behind the mentum. The labial palpi are distinctly composed of fout• joints, and generally pilose, as well as those of the maxillre. 'I'he greater number of the species at·e foreign to France. Some have a tooth in the middle of the emargination in the mentum; the labial pal pi separated at base, the first joint almost cylindrical and without an angular prolongation at the extremity; and the exterior maxillary palpi manifestly projecting beyond the la-bium. Here, the tarsi are similar and have cylindrical joints, in both sexes; the abdomen is wide, almost cordate, and completely clasped by solden~d elytra, whose exterior margin forms a carina. MANTIOonA, Fab. The only two species known( I) are peculiar to Caffraria; they ' are the largest of the genus. One of them-Manticd1·a pallida, Fab.,-is hesitatingly referred by M. William l.\fac-Leay to a new genus which he calls PLATYCIIILE, but which to us only seems to differ from the Manticor~ in the elytra whiGh are not soldercd(2). There, the three first joints of the two anterior tarsi are evidently more dilated or wider in the males than in the females. Sometimes the body is simply oval or oblong, the thorax almost square, sub-isometric or broader than it is long, and neither globular nor in the form of a knot. The third joint of the anter·ior tarsi of the males does not incline inwards, and the following one is in. serted on its extremity. bladder or contractile reservoir; of an excretory duct, in which the mode of excretion varies; and of an excreted liquid which possesses ammoniacal properties. The rt8piratory organ has stigmata or bivalve buttons and tmchex, all of which are tubular . . The nervous system does not differ from that of the Coleoptera !n ge-neral." · (1) Manticora maxillosa, Fab.; Oliv., Col. HI, 37, 1, 2; Ilist. Nat. des Coleop. ,l'Eur. I, 1, 1;-Manticora pallida, Fab. (2) Annulosa Javanica, I, p. 9. |