INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 43. Cicindela. 
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B. Feelers davatc, the club round. Parnus. 
Grey, hairy ; antenna: with appendages. 
Inhabits Europe. Parnas prolifericornis. Fabricius. 
Body Imall ; antennae with a yellowilh appendage. 
Dufky ; fliells pointed teftaceous. 
Inhabits Saxony. Parnus acuminatus. Fabricius. 
Antennae fhort, t!ie firft joint larger incurved villous, the fecond 
thick globular, the reft very Ihort : head black : thorax black 
with an imprelTed dot behind : Jhells llriate black pointed at 
the tip ; body beneath moufe-colour clothed with cinereous 
hairs ; kgs teftaceous, the joints black. 
Black ; margin of the fhells and of the abdomen and legs 
filbferraginous: 
Inhabits 6' Fabricius, Append. /. 445. 
Antennae Ihort infleifted ; body blackilh, villous. 
43. CICINDELA. Aniennce fee- 
lers 6, filiform ; the hind-ones hairy : 
vtandible prominent, armed with many 
teeth: eyes prominent: thorax roun- 
ded, margined, narrower than the 
head. 
This is, in general, a very beautiful genus of Infefts : they are 
found in dry fandy places, and prey with the molt ravenous 
ferocity upon all other infeds which come in their way and 
they can overcome ; the laroja is foft, white, long, 6- footed, 
with a brown fcaly head, and lurks in a round perpendicular 
hole in the ground, -with its head at the entrance, to draw in 
and devour whatever infefts may come near or fall into it. 
A. Lip i^-toothed. 
Thorax elongated cylindrical ; body blue : thighs ferrit- 
ginous. 
Inhabits S/a»i ; large. Ollv.Ins. 33. tab. 2 fig. I 7 - . 
Antenna, grey, blue at the bafe ; Jhells punfturcd, cmargina e 
the tip : legs grey ; thighs ferruginous. 
rax elongated cylindrical : body black : thighs ferrugi 
nous. . , 
habits Eafi India. JA. Soc. Hiji. Nat. Ha-vn. I. tah. 5. 
'ells rugged, joined in the middle. , , . , 
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