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quinque dentato, femoribusposterioribus longitudme 

 modicis." To this genus belong Cic. 8-notata 

 Wiedemann, Chinensis Fab. De Jeanii Hope, and 

 Princeps of Vigors. It may here be mentioned that 

 the species of this genus are deservedly reckoned 

 amongst the most beautiful and splendid insects of 

 our Cabinets. 



12. Distipsidera, Westwood. 



This new genus exhibits the characters of several 

 of the groups of Cicindelidae ; from Cicindela it is 

 distinguished by the large size of the labrum, the 

 unarmed mentum, the large labial palpi, the short 

 antennae, &c. The same characters remove it 

 from Odontocheila Laporte, of which it has the 

 external habit, but a different thorax. From The- 

 rates which it also much resembles, it is removed by 

 the large labial palpi, simple fourth joint of the tarsi, 

 and by having an external maxillary palpus. From 

 Dromica its peculiar form and labrum remove it. 

 It appears most nearly allied to Euprosopus and Hire- 

 sia ; agreeing with the former in the structure of the 

 labial palpi, but differing in the labrum and mentum, 

 and resembling Hiresia in the form of the body and 

 in the peculiar style of punctuation on the elytra, 



