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the natural history of the coleoptera of Europe, the first volume of the species of M. Le Comte Dejean, the excellent work of M. Sch nherr on the synonimy of the insects, and the Zoological part of the voyage of M. Caillaud, where I have described and figured the insects collected by him in Africa. [page] 18

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Catascopi, M. Le Comte Dejean (Spec. I. p. 226,) places the genus Corsyra of Mr. Stevens, which has for its type the Cymindus fusula, of the Entomographie of Russia, by M. Fischer, I. xii. 3. It differs from this last in its tarsi, the crotchets of which are simple. The body otherwise is flatted, as in the preceding, and the other neighbouring sub-genera, short, tolerably broad, with the palpi filiform, the mentum unindented, the labrum transverse, the corslet broader than the head, and almost

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punctuated stri . It is more common in the south of France than in the north; M. Blondel (the son) has, however, found it in abundance, in a locality, in the neighbourhood of Versailles. N.B. For the other species see Hist. Nat. des Coleop. d'Eur. II. x. 2. and Spec. Gen. de M. le Comte Dejean, tom. I. pag. 182. To those succeed carabici, very analogous to the preceding in their divisionary characters, but which are removed from them by the form of the tarsi. The first four articulations, or at least

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are thicker or swollen at the end, the labrum entire, the labial palpi terminated by a larger articulation, nearly hatchet-formed, or triangular; the thighs and legs narrow and elongated. The others have the body oval or oblong, with the corslet * Clivines, Nos. 8 21, of M. le Comte Dejean; but the eighth, or arctica, appears to have some of the character of Cephalotes. Harp alus monilicornis, Lat. Gener. Crust, and Insect. I. p. 206; Morio monilicornis, Dej. Spec. I. p. 430; Scarit. Georgi

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antenn more filiform, the head proportionally more narrow, and the mandibles a little less projecting. In their habits they approach the zabri and harpali. Such are the AMARA, in which the corslet is transverse; some species, rather shorter, whose corslet is widened from front to rear, form the genus Leirus of certain authors. The Scolytus flexuosus of Fabricius would appear referable to this division, but, according to M. le Comte Dejean, the four anterior tarsi are dilated. It has appeared to me

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other exotic species of Fabricius, such as the following: tenuicollis, occulatus, posticus, micans, quadricolor, stigma, ammon, carnifex, c. Sec the second vol. of the Spec. of M. le Comte Dejcan. [page] 22

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two articulations of the anterior tarsi alone, are dilated in the males. The eyes are less projecting, and the neck is less narrow than in the preceding sub-genus. Carabus rufipes, Fab. C. excavatus, Payk, Panz. ibid. xxxiv, 2. M. le Comte Dejean, in the catalogue of his collection, mentions two other species, one of Portugal, and the other of North America. We shall now pass to the carabici, whose anterior legs have no emargination in the interior side, or which have but one, but commencing very

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chin is bifid. Cardbus coriaceus, Fab. Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. LXXXI. 1. See second vol. of the Spec. of Count Dejean, n 26, and following. CARABUS, Lin. Fab. Tachypus, Web. In which the labrum is simply emarginated or bilobate, and of which the tooth of the emargination of the chin is entire. M. le Comte Dejean has described one hundred and twentyfour, which he has distributed into sixteen divisions. The first thirteen comprehend those whose elytra are convex or gibbous, and the last three those

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underneath; the two ante * I have seen three species, and all of Brazil. One has great relations with the Melasis tuberculata of M. Dalman. (Anal. Entom.) The jaws terminate by a very small and pointed lobe. M. le Comte de Maunherheim has published a very fine monograph of this sub-genus, of which an extract has been given, and the plates re-produced in the third volume of the Annals of Natural Science. I have added there a few observations on the too great extent which this naturalist has given

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, Hor Entomolog. VI. 8, presents to me no character to distinguish it precisely from the foregoing. See Fischer Entom. de la Russie, tom. II. page 153. This sub-genus comprehends the Elater linearis of Linn us, of which his masomelas is only a variety; E. borealis, of Gyllenhal, and his E. cinctus. M. le Comte Dejean having gained but a single individual, I could not sacrifice it for the purpose of studying the characters in detail. Two insects of Java have somewhat of a similar appearance. In

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the metamorphoses of the two sexes. The observations made at Geneva, by M. le Comte Mielzinsky, on the larva of this insect, and on the female, in a perfect state, excited the attention of two [page] 33

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, as M. le Comte Dejean has informed me, in garrets. It appears that it is also met with in France, in the department of the Eastern Pyrenees. Another species has been discovered in Nubia. MELYRIS, Fab., Whose antenn thicken insensibly without forming a knob, and whose articulations are less dilated laterally, and almost isometrical. The corslet is less convex. * See, for the other species, Fabricius. The melyris of Olivier, Nos. 6, 17. Panz. Ind. Entom. p. 143, Lat. Gen. Crust, et Ins. I. p. 264

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the tarsi entire. The mandibles, as far as it appears to me, are narrowed and almost tricuspidate at their extremity. The chin is corneous, very large, buckler-formed, and termi * The lymexylon proboscideum of Olivier, the individual of which has served as a type to his description, and which now forms a part of the collection of M. le Comte de Jousselin, at Versailles, ought to form a peculiar genus. See also the Lymexylon flabellicorne of Panzer, Faun. Insect. Germ. XI. 10. Cupes capitata, Fab

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and emarginated. The jaws have many teeth. The mentum is in the form of an elongated square, slightly narrowed near its upper end, and without lashes on its upper edge. One of the hooks of the tarsi, or of the four anterior tarsi, at least, is bifid, and the other entire. (Hor Entom.) * Melolontha crysochlora, Lat. Voy. de Humb. c. Boupl. II. 15. 1. fem. 2. male; Scarab us macropus, Shem. Mis. 380-4. See the Catalogue of the Collection of M. le Comte Dejean, Mr. Macleay, the younger, Horse

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which the lateral fold of the elytra is * Pimelia dentipes, Fab.; ejusd. Platynotus reticulatus, pimelia obscura, Oliv. Insects of the Cape of Good Hope. Scotimus crenicollis, Kirb. Lin. Trans. XII. xxi. 14, a sub-genus proper to the American continent. Latr. Gen. Crust, et Insect. II. p. 155. See the Cat. of the Collect, of Coleopt. of M. le Comte Dejean, p. 65. The platynotus undatus of Fab. is a very different species from the A. gr sea. This author is, I believe, mistaken as to its habitat

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thighs, is silky in many males. Sometimes the sides of the corslet are narrowed abruptly near the posterior angles, or are almost rounded, with a projecting tooth at this extremity. The body is oval. Such are HELIOPHILUS of M. le Comte Dejean. Sometimes the corslet terminates insensibly on each side, in a pointed angle. The body is proportionally shorter and broader. Some species, with a large corslet, but little broader than long, strongly edged laterally, and whose body is but little gibbous

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transformed into a nymph in the substance, which serves it as food. T. Grandis is found in Brazil, under the barks of old trees; shoots through the anus, and to the distance of more than a foot, a caustic fluid. Other species of the same country, but smaller, cover themselves entirely with this substance. I am indebted for these observations to M. de la Cordaire. * Upis ceramboides, Fab.; N. saperdoides, Base. See, for the other species, the Cat. of the Collect, of M. le Comte Dejean, and Fabricius

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; upper part of body olive green; abdomen conical, very pointed, and without a terminal brush. The caterpillar is black, with * Formed from a Brazilian species, which I believe to be inedited in the collection of M. le Comte Dejean. [page break

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triangular, the others are square, with two crenulated hillocks, just like the tapirs in question, and two heels, one before and one behind. But the radius which I mentioned before, and which was found with some teeth at Carlat-le-Comte, a small town near the Pyrenees, was sufficient to determine the Baron to decide that the animal to which it belonged appertained to neither of the above genera. Its short and rounded form corresponded to no animal but the tapir, and its size bears a proportion to

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some others. M. le Comte Dejean places it with Pterostichus. Some species of Brazil will also enter here. M. Germar (Insect. Nov. Spec. I. p. 21) has described one of these under the name of Molops Corinthius. Those whose body is almost parallelipiped, with the corslet almost squared, little or not at all narrowed behind, will form a second division of this number; these are the platysma nigra of M. M. Bonelli and Dejean, the Omaseus of the latter (Catal. p. 12), and the Carabus tenebrioides of

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penultimate articulation of the tarsi bifid. * See Gravenhorst, Coleop. Microp. and Latr. Gen. Crust, et Insect. I. 289. The L. Elongatun (S. Elongatus, Lin.) has been figured by Panzer, ibid. IX. 12; Staphylinus linearis, Oliv. Col. III. 2. iv. 58. See also Gyllen. Insect. Suec. I. Part II. p. 565, et seq. and the Catalogue of the Collection of M. le Comte Dejean, p. 24. M. Lefevre has brought from Sicily an insect neighbouring on the P derus, but evidently forming a new genus. The fourth and last

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Society, and of a Journey from Madras to the Mysore c. which contains several valuable observations. We are particularly indebted to him for A Natural History of the Fishes of the Ganges, 1 vol. 4to. with a great number of excellent plates. Edinburgh, 1822. BUCKLAND (William), professor of Geology at Oxford, author of the Reliqui Diluvian , 4to. London, 1825, and of numerous Memoirs on fossils. BUFF. BUFFON (Georges-Louis-Leclerc, Comte de), Intendant of the Jardin du Roi, and Treasurer of the Acad

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gnement satisfaisant sur un monument qu'on avait envoy en France au comte de Maurepas, et qui, selon le r cit de Kalm*, avait t trouv par M. de Verandrier dans les savanes du Canada, 900 lieues l'ouest de Montr al, dans une exp dition aux c tes du grand Oc an. Ce voyageur rencontra au milieu de la plaine des masses prodigieuses de pierre, lev es par la main des hommes; sur Tune d'elles on vit quelque chose qu'on prit pour une inscription tartare**. Comment un monument aussi int ressant n'a-t

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d'Europe, car la premi re personne venue, pour peu qu'elle soit vers e dans la science des insectes, sait parfaitement qu'une telle entreprise est impossible, au moins dans ce moment-ci. Mais j'ai fait tous mes efforts pour donner toutes les esp ces que l'on rencontre habituellement dans les collections; et gr ce au travail pr cieux du savant entomologiste M. le comte Dejan, j'ai pu, peu de chose pr s, compl ter la famille la plus int ressante, celle des carabiques. J'ai suivi peu pr s la m me

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lat ralement, r tr ci pr s des angles post rieurs, et offre imm diatement avant eux une petite chancrure. Les palpes labiaux se terminent par un article videmment plus pais, presque triangulaire. On en conna t deux esp ces, (1) Voyez, tant pour celui-ci que pour le pr c dent, le Catalogue de M. le comte Dejean et M. Germar (Insect. spec. nov., I, p. 26 et suiv.). Quelques esp ces, telles que le Molops terricola (Scarites piceus, Panz, Faun. insect. Germ., XI, 2); le Molops clatus (Scarites