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 dcn- 
tated mandibles ; the very short ligula is concealed behind the mcn- 
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- 
tura; 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, Avhose exterior margin forms a carina. 
Manticora, F'ah. 
The only two species known * * are peculiar to Caffraria ; they 
are the largest of the genus. One of them — Manticora pallida. 
Fab., — is hesitatingly referred by M. AVilliam Mac-Lcay to a 
new genus which he calls Platychile; but which to us only 
seems to differ from the IManticorse 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 rxdra is provided with two retractile hooks. The 
ova form oblong ovals. The presence of a secretincj excremental apparatus is one of 
the most striking characters in the anatomy of all the Carabici. It consists of one 
or several clusters of secretimj ulricuU, 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 bnttons and 
trachea, all of which are tubular. The 7i€rvous sijstem does not differ from that of 
the Coleoptera in genoral.” 
* Manticora maxillosa, Fab. ; Oliv., Col. HI, 37, 1,2; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. 
d’Eur. I, 1, 1 ; Manticora pallida, B'ab. 
t Annulosa Javanica, I, p. 9. 
