. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. CAItABIDvE. 55 With regard to the. Fig. 25.— Carabus cancel-led us. Larva X J.(After Schiodte). classification of the Carabidte, muchhas been written ; they have fromthe very first attracted collectors,and by many have been regarded(with the comparatively small familyCicindelidte) as the head of theColeoptera ; but the tendency now isto place them at the end rather than atthe beginning. There is much to be said forLacordaires classification of the group(Gen. des Coleppteres, Vol. i.), butthe Legions, Sections, and Tribes areso

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. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. CAItABIDvE. 55 With regard to the. Fig. 25.— Carabus cancel-led us. Larva X J.(After Schiodte). classification of the Carabidte, muchhas been written ; they have fromthe very first attracted collectors,and by many have been regarded(with the comparatively small familyCicindelidte) as the head of theColeoptera ; but the tendency now isto place them at the end rather than atthe beginning. There is much to be said forLacordaires classification of the group(Gen. des Coleppteres, Vol. i.), butthe Legions, Sections, and Tribes aresomewhat hard to follow, as he givesno initial tables. Moreover, he ap-pears to be wrong in some points,as when he places the aberrant Mor-molyce between TJiyreopterus andCatascopus, under his tribe Peki-callides, and includes under the samesection the Peeicaleides and Pseudo-morfhides. If we except the lastnamed group and the MoemolycenvE,the CarabiDjE may be at once separ-ated into two great divisions, theCakaben^ and the HaepalinvE, as follows:— I. Mesothoracic epimera reaching the middle cox

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