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MODERN SYSTEM. 
B. Palpi moderately porrected. Anterior tarsi of the male with 
three or four dilated joints. (Neck none.) 
* Anterior tibia notched on their hinder or lower side. 
Stirps 4. — Wings two (habit of the Cicindelada). 
Genus 18. NOTHIOPIITT.US. DumLril , Bonel ., Pang., Leach. 
Labrum quadrate, its apex rounded : labium on each side dilated round- 
ed : lingula rather long, broad, corneous : thorax flat, subquadrate, 
subtransverse, as broad as the head and abdomen : eyes prominent : 
wings two. ( Anterior tarsi of the male not distinctly dilated.) 
Sp. 1. Not. aquations. Panz.. 
Cicindela aquatica. Marsh. 
Inhabits Europe, and is very common in Britain. 
Genus 19. ELAPHRUS. Fabr., Lutr., Bonel., Leach, &c. 
Labrum transverse, truncate : Up on each side obliquely subtruncate ■ 
lingula short, narrow, membranaceous : thorax truncate-obcordate, 
convex and unequal, narrower than the head and abdomen : eyes 
very prominent. ( Anterior tarsi of the male distinctly dilated.) 
Sp. 1. Elaph. riparius. Fabr. 
Inhabits the edges of ponds on Epping Forest, Coombe Wood, and 
Battersea Fields. 
Genus 20. BEMBIDIUM. Leach, Oyll. Bliiridion. Latr.f 
Bonel., Panz. OcvDr.oMtrs. Frolic h, Cluirv. 
Labrum transverse : thorax narrower than the abdomen, and as broad 
as the head : eyes more or less prominent : wings two, generally per- 
fect. (Anterior tarsi of the male with the first joint very much di- 
lated.) Maxillary palpi with their last joint minute, abruptly nar- 
rower than the preceding joint. 
Sp. 1. Bemb.Jlavipes. Latr. 
Inhabits sandy places, and roots of grass. 
Genus 21. CILLENUS. Leach’s MSS. 
Labrum transverse : thorax narrower than the abdomen and as broad 
as the head : eyes rather prominent : wings two, imperfect. Anterior 
tarsi with the second, third, and fourth joints transverse (of th c 
male wider than those of the female : body depressed.) 
Sp. 1. Ctll. lateralis. Thorax purple bronze cordate with an impressed 
longitudinal line : elytra livid purple striated, with some impressed 
discoidal punctures, the striae running together behind, margins "j 
the elytra indexed, base of the antenna; and legs testaceous : head 
purplish or greenish-bronze. 
Inhabits the sca-shore. First discovered by Dr. Leach near P or j° 
Bello on the Frith of Forth, and afterwards taken at Cromer i> J 
Norfolk, in great profusion. 
