COLEOPTERA. 269 



They are divided into two tribes. The first or the Cicm- 

 delettE, 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- 

 turn. 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(l) are peculiar to Caffraria; they 

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

 Fab., — is hesitatingly referred by M. William 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(2). 

 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. 



bladder or contractile reservoir; of an excretory duct, in which the mode of excre- 

 tion varies; and of an excreted liquid which possesses ammoniacal properties. The 

 respiratory organ has stigmata or bivalve buttons and tracheae, all of which are 

 tubular. The nervous system does not differ from that of the Coleoptera in ge- 

 neral." 



(1) Manticora maxillosa. Fab.; Oliv., Col. Ill, 37, 1, 2; Hist. Nat. des Coleop. 

 J' Eur. I, 1, 1;— Manticora pallida, Fah. 



(2) Annulosa Javanica, I, p. 9. 



