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deavours to pinch, but its bite is inoffensive and not very painful. 

 They are prodigiously active in running. Armed with jaws which are 



Fig. 527. Cicindela heros. 



Fig. 528. Cicindela 

 quadrilineata. 



Fig. 529. -Cicindela 

 capensis. 



powerful enough to overcome their victims and to seize them at once, 

 they can dispense with stratagem. 



Their larvae (Fig. 530) are soft, and have short legs. To satisfy 



Fig. 530. Larva of Cicindela 



Fig. 531. Ambush of larva of 

 Cicindela campestris. 



their voracity they are obliged to lie in ambush in holes. They are 

 two-thirds of an inch long ; their head is horny and in the form of a 



