REMARKS AND ANNOTATIONS 



FABRICIAN CICINDELOIDEA. 



Sp. Grossa. — The Baron De Jean has expressed 

 his opinion in his Species General des Coleopteres 

 that the above insect is probably a Dromica, be- 

 lieving it however to be the representative in Asia 

 of the African Dromica. I am inclined to make it 

 the type of a new genus, which I have named 

 Apteroessa, as it belongs to the Apterous section ; the 

 generic characters will appear in their proper place 

 at the end of this Fasciculus, along with various 

 other instituted sub-genera. 



My friend Mr. Kirby, in the commencement of 

 his Fauna Boreali Americana, under his section 

 Euptera places his three sub-tribes, viz. Longicollia 

 (CoUiuris), Brevicollia (Cicindela), and Fissicollia 

 (Manticora) ; with this arrangement I am inclined 

 to differ, and suggest that the Manticoridae either 



