COLEOPTERA 365 



They are divided into two tribes. The first or the CICINDELETJB, 

 Lat., comprises the genus 



ClCINDELA, Lin., 



In which the extremity of the maxillae is provided with a little nail 

 articulated \\-ith it by its base. 



The head is large, with great eyes, and very projecting and den- 

 tated mandibles ; the very short ligula is concealed behind the men- 

 tuni. The hiliial palpi are distinctly composed of four joints, and 

 generally pilose, as well as those <,f the maxillae. The greater num- 

 ber of the species are foreign to France. 



ha\v a tooth in the middle of the emargination in the men- 

 turn; the labial palpi separated at base, the first joint almost cylin- 

 drical and without an angular prolongation at the extremity; and 

 the exterior maxillary palpi manifestly projecting beyond the la- 

 bium. 



Here, the tarsi are similar, and have cylindrical joints, in both 

 sexes; the abdomen is wide, almost cordate, and completely clasped 

 by soldered elytra, whose exterior margin forms a carina. 



MANTICORA, Fab. 



The only two species known * are peculiar to Caffraria ; they 

 .are the largest of the genus. One of them Manticorapallida, 

 Fab., is hesitatingly referred by M. William Mac-Leay to a 

 new genus which he calls PLATYCHILE ; but which to us only 

 seems to differ from the Manticorse in the elytra, which are not 

 soldered f. 



There, the three first joints of the two anterior tarsi are evidently 

 more dilated or wider in the males than in the females. 



Sometimes the body is simply oval or oblong, the thorax almost 

 square, sub-isometric, or broader than it is long, and neither globu- 

 lar nor in the form of a knot. The third joint of the anterior tarsi 

 of the males does not incline inwards, and the following one is in- 

 serted on its extremity. 



Of these latter, those species whose labial palpi are evidently 

 longer than 'the external maxillary palpi, and with the penultimate 

 joint longer than the last, form two subgenera. 



extremity, and of a reservoir. The ru/ra is provided with two retractile hooks. The 

 ora form oblong ovals. The presence of a -secreting excremental apparatus is one of 

 the most striking characters in the anatomy of all the Carabici. It consists of one 

 or several clusters of secreting utriruli, the form of which varies according to the 

 genus ; of a long ros tffcrtns ; of a bladder or contractile reservoir ; of an excretory 

 duct, in which the mode of excretion varies ; and of an excreted Jiquid which possesses 

 ammoniacal properties. The respiratory organ has stigmata or bivalve buttons and 

 trucli Kich are tubular. The nenmts system does not differ from that of 



the Coleoptera in general." 



* Manticora maxillosa, Fab.; Oliv., Col. HI, 37, 1,2; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. 

 d'Eur. I, 1, 1 ; Manticora pallida, Fab. 



f Annulosa Javanica, I, p. 9. 



