CICINDELA. 
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blackish purple colour, with the wing-sheaths each 
marked by an undulated whitish band and three 
white spots: it frequents woods and is far less 
common than the former. 
The larvtc of the Cicindelae are of a lengthened 
shape, somewhat like those of the smaller Ceram- 
byces, and are furnished with strong, curved jaws: 
they inhabit tubular hollows, which they form near 
the surface of the ground, and prey on' the smaller 
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insects. 
