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themselves in holes, and are met with on the sea-shore, where they 

 are seen sometimes to pop up by hundreds. They live on flies and 

 little shrimps, which abound on the sea-shore. 



The Cicmdela cavipesti-is (Fig. 523), or Tiger Beetle, is of a 

 beautiful green, spotted with white ; the abdomen is of a bronze red. 

 In this country it is the commonest of the genus. The Cici?tdela 

 hybrida, of a dull green, relieved by light bands, inhabits sandy 

 woods. The Cicmdela inai'itima differs from the preceding. The 



Fig. 524.— CIclndela Dumoulinii. Fig. 525.— Cicindela rugosa. Fig. 526.— Cicindela scalaris. 



Cicifidela sylvatica, which flies very well, is not easy to catch, and is 

 to be often met with in the warm glades of the forest of Fontainebleau 

 and at Montmorency ; it is not unfrequent here. Its colour is brown, 

 spotted with white ; it diffuses a strong smell of the rose, to which 

 succeeds, on being seized, the acrid odour of the secretion which it 

 disgorges. We here represent the Cicindela Dii7noiili?iii (Fig. 524), 

 the Cicindela riigosa (Fig. 525), the Cicindela scalaris (Fig. 526), the 

 Cicindela heros (Fig. 527), the Cicindela quadrilincata (Fig. 528), and 

 the Cicindela capensis (Fig. 529). 



The ferocity of tliese insects is remarkable. They quickly tear off 

 the wings and legs of their victim, and suck out the contents of its 

 abdomen. Often, when they are disturbed in this agreeable occupa- 

 tion, not wishing to leave it, they fly away with their prey; their 

 flight, however, is not sufficiently powerful to allow of their carrying 

 to any great distance such a heavy burden. When a Cicindela is 

 seized between the fingers, it moves about its mandibles and en- 



