. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. hlapto'ides), an eccentric form called the " fiddle-beetle " by the Japanese, to whose country the genus is confined. Calosoma, a genus almost as handsome as Carabus, is distributed over tropical and south temperate as well as northern regions, but does not reach very high latitudes or great ^, alpine elevations. Some of the species have the remarkable habit of climbing trees in search of caterpillars, which constitute their prey. Kehria is a numerous genus, of smaller size and slighter build, restricted to temperate and arctic l
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. hlapto'ides), an eccentric form called the " fiddle-beetle " by the Japanese, to whose country the genus is confined. Calosoma, a genus almost as handsome as Carabus, is distributed over tropical and south temperate as well as northern regions, but does not reach very high latitudes or great ^, alpine elevations. Some of the species have the remarkable habit of climbing trees in search of caterpillars, which constitute their prey. Kehria is a numerous genus, of smaller size and slighter build, restricted to temperate and arctic latitudes, and Ekvplirus, having a similar geo- graphical distribution, is remarkable for its prominent eyes, like the Tiger-beetles, towards which family the genus is certainly an, apjjroxima- tion; the species, of which four are found in Britain, are marsh insects, and are found running over damp earth in the sunny days of early spring. Among the exotic forms of this section, the most extraordinary is AmpJdzoa, found in the valley of the Sacramento, in California. In the structure of its sternum and haunch-sockets, and in its naked antennse, it resembles the true Dyticidpe much more closely than any form of CaiabidiS, but its legs are formed for running, not swimming. Its place /' in a natural arrangement seems to be at the commencement, indifl^erently, C of the two chief families of the tribe, indicating that it is a survival of some primitive form from which these families have branched by subse- quent evolution. Another remarkable group are the Ozcenirun, medium- sized Carabidfe, found in tropical and warm countries at the roots of l)lants or under the bark of trees. They have a small fold in the outer margin of the wing covers, a feature which is observed elsewhere in no group but the very aberrant family Pan^sidce, described farther on. The numerous subfamily Scaritidie, or burrowing Garabidse, belong also to this first division, as do also the allied group Singoniiia:, f
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