INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 43. Cicindela. 393 



B. Feelers clavate, the club round. Parnus. 



*Dermcfloi- Grey, hairy : antenna? with appendages. 

 des. . Inhabits Europe. Parnus prolifericornis. Fabricius. 



Body {mall : antennae with a yellowifh appendage. 



Acuminatus Dtiflcy ; fhells pointed teftaceous. 



Inhabits Saxony. Parnus acurrfinatus. Fabricius. 

 Antennae fhort, the firft joint larger incurved villous, the fecond 

 thick globular, the relt very ihort : head black : thorax black 

 with an imprefled dot behind : Jhells ftriate black pointed at 

 the tip : body beneath moufe-colour clothed with cinereous 

 hairs : legs teftaceous, the joints black. 



Obfcurus* Black ; margin of the (hells and of the abdomen and legs 

 fubferruginous: 

 Inhabits Germany. Fabricius, Append./. 44c. 

 Antennae fhort inflected : body blackifn, villous. 



43. CICINDELA. Antenna fetaceous : fee- 

 . lers 6, filiform ; the hind-ones hairy ; 

 mandible prominent, armed with many- 

 teeth : eyes prominent : thordx roun- 

 ded, margined, narrower than the 

 head. 



. This is, in general, a very beautiful genus of Infects : they are 

 found in dry fandy places, and prey with the moft ravenous 

 ferocity upon all other infects which come in their way and 

 they can overcome : the lar-va is foft, white, long, 6- footed, 

 with a brown fcaly head, and lurks in a round perpendicular 

 hole in the ground, with its head at the entrance, to draw in 

 and devour whatever infects may come near or fall into it. 



-A. Lip T^-tcothed. 



Longicollis. Thorax elongated cylindrical : body blue : thighs ferru- 

 ginous. 

 Inhabits Siam ; large. Oliv. Ins* 33. tab. 2 Jig. 17. 

 . iwttnnce grey, blue at the bafe : JhelU punctured, emarginate a; 

 the tip: legs grey : /^^ferruginous. 



Thorax elongated cylindrical: body black: thighs ferrugi- 

 nous. 

 Inhabits Eaji India. A3. Soc. Hijl. Nat. Havn. I. tab. 5. 

 Shells rugged, joined in the middle. 



Vol.— II 3 D Attclaboides. 



