COLEOPTEKA, 



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pop up by hundreds. They live on flies and little shrimps, 

 which abound on the sea-shore. 



The Cicindela campestris (Fig. 523), or Tiger beetle, is of a 

 beautiful green spotted with white ; the abdo- 

 men is of a bronze-red. In this country it is 

 the commonest of the genus. The Cicindela 

 hybrida, of a dull green, relieved by ten light 

 bands, inhabits sandy woods ; the Cicindela 

 maritima differs from the preceding. The 

 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 Fontainbleau 

 and Montmorency ; it is notunfrequent 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 dis- 

 gorges. We here represent the Cicindela Dumoulinii (Fig. 524), 



Fig. 523. Tiger Beetle 

 {Cicindela campestris) . 



Fig. 524.- Cicindela Dumoulinii. Fig. 525. Cicindela rugosa. 



Fig. 526. - Ck-indela scalaris 



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

 the Cicindela hews (Fig. 527), the Cicindela quadrilineata (Fig. 

 528), and the Cicindela capensis (Fig. 529). 



The ferocity of these insects is remarkable. They quickly tear 

 off the wings and legs of their victim, and suck out the con- 

 tents of its abdomen. Often when they are disturbed in this 

 agreeable occupation, not wishing to leave it, they fly away with 

 their prey ; their flight, however, is not sufficiently powerful to 



