176 CLASS INSECTA. 



The first, that of CiciNDELETiE, Lat., comprehends the 

 genus 



CiClNDELA, L. 



Which has at the end of the jaws an unguiculus, which is 

 articulated at its base with them. 



Their head is strong, with large eyes, mandibles very much 

 advanced and extremely denticulated, and the ligula very 

 short, and concealed behind the chin. Their labial palpi are 

 composed distinctly of four articulations. They are gene- 

 rally hairy, as well as the maxillary. Most part of the 

 species are exotic. 



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

 mentum. The labial palpi are separated at their origin, the 

 first articulation being almost cylindrical, without any angu- 

 lar elongation at its extremity, and the external maxillary 

 palpi are manifestly advanced beyond the labrum. 



Here the tarsi are similar, and with cylindrical articula- 

 tions in both sexes. The abdomen is broad, almost in the 

 form of a heart, and entirely embraced by synostosized 

 elytra, and the external edge of which forms a keel. 



Manticora, Fab. 



The two only known species inhabit Caffraria. {Manticora 

 maculosa. Fab. Oliv. Col. III. 37. 1. 2. Hist. Nat. des 

 Coleops, d'Eur. and Manticora pallida, Fab.) These are 

 the largest of the genus. One of them, M. pallida, is re- 

 ferred, though doubtfully, by Mr. MLeay, to a new genus 

 which he names Platychile, and which appears to us to 

 differ little from the manticora but in not having the elytra 

 synostosized. Annulosa, Jav. I. p. 9. 



There the first three articulations of the two anterior tarsi 

 are sensibly more dilated or broader in the males than in the 

 females. 



