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or other vegetable tissue; but this is by no means uniform, a few species 

 being distinctly beneficial, while others are as decidedly harmful. 



Seventh. Beetles with 5-jointed feet and slender, filiform or thread-like 

 antennae are probably predatory and beneficial. There are only a few 

 exceptions to this. 



The list in this order has been very materially added to in many fami- 

 lies, and may be considered fairly accurate and complete. It has been 

 critically looked over by a number of our best Coleopterists, and every 

 questionable record has been verified, so far as it was possible to do so. 

 Credit is given in all cases for work done in the various families, and in 

 most instances the most recent American work has been followed. 



There has been no recent comprehensive work on this order in the 

 United States, and the studies in other countries, which indicate a very 

 radical change in the arrangement of the series, have not been generally 

 understood and accepted here. Under the circumstances, I have deemed 

 it best to attempt no change in the arrangement, a faunal list being no 

 proper place to introduce a mooted or new classification. 



Family CICINDELID^. 



Commonly known as "tiger-beetles." They are long-legged, rather 

 slender, active beetles, predatory in habit, living usually in open, sandy 

 places, and flying readily when disturbed. The larvge are uncouth 

 creatures, with large head and prominent jaws, that live in vertical bur- 

 rows in sandy soil, watching at the mouth for such unwary creatures as 

 may come in their way. They are of no economic importance. 



Fig. 85. Tiger beetles: a, Cicindela repanda; b, C. generosa; c, C. se.vguttata; 



d, C. purpurea; e, a larva. 



CICINDELA Linn. 



C. unipunctata Fabr. Plainfield, on the mountain road VII, 4 (div); Lake- 

 hurst VI (div); Malaga IX, 15 (GG); Atco, Woodstown (Li); DaCosta 

 VII (W). Usually rare and always local; partly nocturnal in habit; 

 "found running in pine woods along roads before dark" (W). 



