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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 CICINDEUDtE. 
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 larvm 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: o, Cicindela repanda; b, C. generosa; c, C. sexguttata; 
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). 
