THE 
WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
“entoma quidquid agent nostri est farrago libelli.” 
Vol. 2. No. 14.] SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1863. [Price 2d. 
NOTES FROM LACORDAIRE. 
No. IY. 
~^^TE now come to the third tribe 
of the Family G icindeletes, — a 
tribe which is more familiar to our 
English readers than any which 
have been noticed before, viz., the 
Cicindelides. As this tribe is of 
greater extent than any which we 
have already observed, our extracts 
must be very brief indeed. In fact, 
as far as the descriptions of the 
genera are concerned, we can do 
little more than extract a tabulation 
which occurs at the commencement 
of the family. It is as follows : — 
I. Third joint of the labial palpi 
of normal size, — Iresia , Oxygonia , 
JEucallia, Durymorpha, Gicindela , 
Odontocheila , Phyllodroma. 
II. The same joint much larger 
than the others, — as though dilated 
in all its length, — Megalomma, Ap- 
teroessa, Myrmecoptera, Dromica, 
Cosmema, Duprosopus. 
The genus Iresia may be known 
from the rest by “ the last joint of 
the labial palpi being longer than 
the third.” 
Three genera M. Lacordaire in- 
forms us are wingless, viz., Aptero- 
essa , Dromica , Cosmema. 
“ The genus Gicindela is the only 
one of the family which is repre- 
sented in Europe.” 
The genera composing this tribe 
are most of them of small extent, for 
if we except Gicindela and Odonto- 
cheila, the two largest are Phylla- 
droma, and Dromica, each containing 
seven species. Many of them also 
appear to be rare, as all the species 
belonging to the following genera 
are so described, — Iresia, Oxygonia, 
Apteroessa, Dromica, and in several 
others the same is implied. Gicin- 
dela is one of the largest known 
genera of Goleoptera, containing more 
than four hundred species mentioned 
by authors, but in many cases the 
same insect has been twice de- 
scribed.” The species of the genus 
Odontocheila “ are numerous.” 
The geographical distribution of 
Gicindela seems to be very wide. M. 
Lacordaire mentions species from 
Europe, Siberia, Asia generally, 
India, China, Australia, Oceania, 
Africa, and America. 
The remainder of the tribe, we 
gather from M. Lacordaire, is in 
