AETICULATA. 
CiciNDEL, G. pur2mrea^ is purple and brilliant green: the Cousin Cicindel, C. patruela^ is bot- 
tle-green above, steel-blue and green beneath ; the White-lipped Cicindel, C. albilabris, is 
black, with a purplish tint above. 
The genus Carahus includes numerous European species, some of which are brilliantly colored, 
and all of which are exceedingly rapacious — taking the place among insects of the lions and tigers 
among beasts. In illustration of the savageness of this race, the author of the "Jardin des 
Plantes" tells us of a Golden Carabus, C. auratus^ that was seen to pursue and attack a cock- 
chafer, and, having drawn out its bowels, proceed leisurely to devour them. This species inhab- 
its gardens, and is popularly called the Gardener. 
THE INQtriSITOR CARABUS. THE ELBE CARABUS. 
The Blue Carabus, C. cyaneus^ is an inch and a quarter long, the body oval, flat, and above 
of a brilliant blue. The Sycophant Carabus, C. sycojjhanta, is a beautiful species of a golden- 
green color, with coppery reflections : its larvae are noted for the destruction they make among 
the processionary caterpillars. The Inquisitor Carabus, C. inquisitor^ has the same form and 
manners as the preceding: the body is an inch long, and of a blackish-green color. 
THE BOMBARDIER BEETLE. 
Another species, the Bombardier Beetle, A2:>tinus balista, are provided with a most extraor- 
dinary means of defense. These have a large oval abdomen, which secretes a caustic fluid. They 
live in societies, and when they are attacked or alarmed, they discharge this fluid, which not only 
makes a loud report, but difl"uses a disagreeable and penetrating odor : if the liquid strikes the 
human skin, it produces a blister. The French call this battery of the little bombardiers an 
Infernal Machine — the name given to a terrible engine which was once exploded in the streets of 
Paris, designed to kill the Emperor Napoleon I. In tropical countries, this kind of insect is of 
