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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 hve on flies and 

 little shrimps, which abound on the sea-shore. 



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

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

 In Great Britain it is the commonest of the genus. The Cicindela 

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

 woods. The Cicindela marititna differs from the preceding. The 



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



Cicindela 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 jDufnoulifiii (Fig. 524), 

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

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

 the Cici?tdela capensis (Fig. 529). 



The ferocity of these insects is remarkable. They quickly tear oft 

 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 



