were ranged by Linneus under the generic term of 

 Cicindela, nine of them at present belong to the 

 Cicindeloidea, while the remaining five are ranked 

 under the Caraboidal families usually denominated 

 Ground Beetles. 



Perhaps no one group of Insects evinces more 

 the rapid progress which Entomology has made of 

 late years than the Cicindelidse. Fabricius, uni- 

 ting the Collyridse with that family, enumerates 

 but 67 species. The Baron De Jean in his first 

 Catalogue published in 1821, mentions 67 species 

 and in his last (bearing the date of 1837) about 

 278. Dr. Gistl of Munich in the first Fasciculus 

 of his Systema Insectorum (which does not include 

 the whole genera composing the group) mentions 

 the same number of species, viz. QJ8. It is pro- 

 bable that 70 others will be added in his second 



of some new species mentioned in the Journal of the Academy of 

 Sciences at Philadelphia by the same author. Of English writers, 

 who treat of our indigenous species, I name for reference the works 

 of Messrs. Stephens and Curtis, and particularly the invaluable 

 Systematic Catalogue of the former writer. As to Exotic species 

 consult the Annulosa Javanica by Mr. MacLeay, the Fauna Boreali 

 Americana by Mr. Kirby, a new New Holland genus in Selby's 

 Journal by Mr.Westwood, and also the Introduction to the Modern 

 Classification of Insects by the same author ; lastly, the Coleopteral 

 part of the Zoological Miscellany by myself, wherein are described 

 the oriental species of the collection of General Hardwicke. 



