488 THE INSECT WORLD. 
continued for long together. In dull weather, they are to be 
seen running on the turf or hiding themselves in holes, and are 
met with on the sea-shore, where they are seen sometimes to pop 
up by hundreds. They live on flies and little shrimps, which 
abound on the sea-shore. 
The Cicindela campestris (Fig. 522), or Tiger Beetle, is of a 
beautiful green spotted with white ; the abdo- 
men is of a bronze red. In this country it is 
‘the commonest of the genus. The Cicindela 
hybrida, of a dull green, relieved by light 
bands, inhabits sandy woods; the Cicindela 
maritima differs from the preceding. ‘The 
Cicindela sylvatica, which flies very well, 1s not 
easy to catch, and is to be often met with in 
the warm glades of the forest of Fontainebleau 
. and Montmorency ; it is not unfrequent here. 
(Gmnee Its colour is brown, spotted with white ; it 
diffuses a strong smell of the rose, to which 
succeeds, on being seized, the acrid odour of the secretion which it 
disgorges. We here represent the Cicindela Dumoulinii (Fig.528), 


Fig. 523.—Cicindela Dumoulinii. Fig. 524.—Cicindela rugosa. Fig. 525.—Cicindela scalaris 
the Cicindela rugosa (Fig. 524), the Cicindela scalaris (Fig. 525), 
the Crcindela heros (Fig. 526), the Cicindela guadrilineata (Fig. 
027), and the Cicindela capensis (Fig. 528). 
The ferocity of these insects is remarkable. They quickly tear 
off the wings and legs of their victim, and suck out the contents 
