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Genus XXII. CICINDEL4- 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna setaceous. Palpi six, filiform, and 

 unequal. Mandibular projecting far before 

 the head, and toothed. Eyes round and pro- 

 minent. Thorax roundish and margined. 

 Tarsi with five articulations. 



General Observations. 



The Cicindelse greatly resemble the Carabi 

 in the form of the antennse, the number of the 

 palpi, and the appendix at the base of the po- 

 sterior thighs ; but they may be distinguished 

 by the prominent eyes, and the form of the 

 thorax, which in the Carabi is heart-shaped 

 and truncated at the end. 



The Cicindelse are carnivorous; and such is 

 their voracity, that they are waging continual 

 war with those unlucky insects, which have the 

 misfortune to come within their reach, without 

 the strength to contend with them. The pro- 

 vision which Nature has made to further their 

 pursuits, and which strongly marks for what 



