COLEOPTERA 365 



They are divided into two tribes. The first or the Cicindelet^, 

 Lat., comprises the genus 



CiCINDELA, Lin., 



In which the extremity of the maxillae is provided with a little nail 

 articulated with it by its base. 



The head is large, with great eyes, and very projecting and den- 

 tated mandibles ; the very short ligula is concealed behind the men- 

 tum. The labial palpi are distinctly composed of four joints, and 

 generally pilose, as well as those of the maxillae. The greater num- 

 ber of the species are foreign to France. 



Some have a tooth in the middle of the emargination in the men- 

 tum ; the labial palpi separated at base, the first joint almost cylin- 

 drical and without an angular prolongation at the extremity; and 

 the exterior maxillary palpi manifestly projecting beyond the la- 

 bium. 



Here, the tarsi are similar, and have cylindrical joints, in both 

 sexes; the abdomen is wide, almost cordate, and completely clasped 

 by soldered elytra, whose exterior margin forms a carina. 



Manticora, Fab. 



The only two species known * are peculiar to Caffraria ; they 

 are the largest of the genus. One of them — Maniicora pallida. 

 Fab., — is hesitatingly referred by M. AVilliam Mac-Leay to a 

 new genus which he calls Platychile; but which to us only 

 seems to differ from the Manticorae in the elytra, which are not 

 soldered f . 



There, the three first joints of the two anterior tarsi are evidently 

 more dilated or wider in the males than in the females. 



Sometimes the body is simply oval or oblong, the thorax almost 

 square, sub-isometric, or broader than it is long, and neither globu- 

 lar nor in the form of a knot. The third joint of the anterior tarsi 

 of the males does not incline inwards, and the following one is in- 

 serted on its extremity. 



Of these latter, those species whose labial palpi are evidently 

 longer than the external maxillary palpi, and with the penultimate 

 joint longer than the last, form two subgenera. 



extremity, and of a reservoir. The vulva is provided -with two retractile hooks. The 

 ova form oblong ovals. The presence of a secreting excremenfal apparatus is one of 

 the most striking characters in the anatomy of all the Carabici. It consists of one 

 or several clusters of secreting utricuU, the form of which varies according to the 

 genus ; of a long vas efferens ; of a bladder or contractile reservoir ; of an excretory 

 duct, in which the mode of excretion varies ; and of an excreted liquid which possesses 

 ammoniacal properties. The respiratory organ has stigmata or bivalve buttons and 

 trachece, all of which are tubular. The nervous system does not differ from that of 

 the Coleoptera in general." 



* Manticora maxillosa, Fab.; Oliv., Col. HI, 37, 1,2; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. 

 d'Eur. I, 1, 1; Manticora pallida, Fab. 



t Amnulosa Javanica, I, p. 9. 



