Cicindela. COLEOPTERA. 



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Genus XXII. Cicindela. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 6$j, 



The antennae of the Cicindelae are feta- 

 eeous. 



The maxillae, or jaws, advance confide* 

 rably before the head, and are armed with 

 teeth. 



The eyes are rather prominent. 



The thorax is roundiih and margined. 



Scopoli and Schaeffer obferve that the Cicin- 

 dela have an obtufe lamina, or knob, at the 

 bafe of the hindermoft thighs, and that the head 

 is broader than the thorax - 9 which circumftancc 

 is chiefly occafioned by the prominency of the 

 £yes. 



Geoffroy has arranged fuch infects belonging 

 to this genus of our author as he has defcribed 

 among his Bupreftides^ (the Linnsean Carabi) 

 from which the Cicindela principally differs in 

 the form of the tliorax, which in it, is roundifhs, 

 but in the Carabus of the form of a heart, and 

 cut off at the end in a direct line. This differ- 



ence^ 



