Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 4: 1913Our Cicindelidae have been considered more or less seriously by a number of authors recently, but the Carabidae have been singu larly neglected - even those genera composed of conspicuous species. No good tabular key to the species of Cambus or Calosoma, as represented in our fauna, has ever been published, and there is no evidence to show that the material in most of our rather numerous collections has been so much as carefully observed or accurately segregated into specific forms. No new Nebm'a has been brought to notice for nearly a generation and the same statement can be made regarding numerous other important genera. All this points only too clearly to the paucity of workers and the vast field that there is to cover. The active describers and classifiers of our Coleoptera as a life specialty, from Thomas Say to the present time, could be counted on the fingers of both hands, with some to spare. It is very remarkable that a subject so fascinating, so broadening to the mind and withal so accessible to everyone, should be so disregarded, ignored or even ridiculed by the vast majority of educated mankind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.