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[November 1883. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VI. 73 
SYNOPTIC TABLES OF COLEOPTERA. 
CICINDELIDA. 
By F. G. Schaupp. 
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Having by predilection during the last few years devoted much time — 
in collecting the species of this family, I have always felt the want of a 
complete treatise on this subject. 
Since Say’s Monograph on Cicindelz (1817) in which he enume- 
rated but fifteen species, Dr. Leconte published his Revision of the Ci- 
cindelz of the United States (1856) treating sixty-five species, the two 
papers being on Cicindela alone. 
It is difficult to obtain the latter paper, incomplete as it has be- 
come by the recent publications of new species and by the discovery that 
many enumerated therein are but varieties or races. Hence the time 
seems opportune for the publication of a newly revised you in which all 
the species now known will appear. 
I do not, however, in the present paper, pretend to present a tho- 
roughly exhaustive scientific treatise, but rather a concise, plain guide 
such as I myself have felt the need of. | 
I have availed myself of every printed, written and oral communi- 
cation accessible to me to make the work as complete as possible, and I 
take this opportunity to express my thanks to all those, who have aided 
me by furnishing dates or specimens. 
CICINDELIDAE. 
Antenne filiform, 11 jointed, inserted on the front above the base of 
the mandibles, which are long and sharply toothed, hind cox mobile 
and simple, abdomen of female 6-articulate, of male usually 7-articulate. 
We have four genera. 
Posterior coxze separated, eyes small. 
Bides.ot the elytranwidelyainilexednss. tj a iclaya/< oletelsiaa siecle gies yeahs Amblychila. 
miees, ofthe elyira-narrowly, ttlex2d 4... s/srsis)- a> eielcuc cls’ eat chars ; adc esssn QOmus. 
Posterior coxze contiguous. eyes large prominent. 
Third joint of maxillary palpi longer than the fourth................... Tetracha. 
Third joint of maxillary Palpueshonter,tnanmtivertowrthy sey. ers elses eyes Cicindela. 
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