206 natural history. 
CICINDELA CAMPESTRIS. 
The FIELD-SPARKLER. 
T. 
HE fiekl-fparkler is one of our moft 
beautiful infeds. The upper part of its 
body is rough, and of a fine green unged 
with blue. The under fide, legs and horns, 
arc of a flict colour, gold, and a red, 
inclining to the copper hue. Ine eyes, 
being prominent, give the head a broad 
appearance. The breaft is pointed, and 
narrower than the head ; which charaaerizes 
the cicindelfE. Like the head, the breaft is 
rough ; and of a green colour, tinged with 
gold. The elytra are delicately and irregu- 
larly dotted, with fix white Ipots on each. 
'I'his infea runs with great fvyiftnefs, an 
flies with facility. At the beginning of 
it is found in dry, fandy places, where its 
l.rvte aUo inhabit. Theie are a long, fott, 
v.hitifl) worm, with fix legs, and Y 
head. They make a perpendicular hole i 
the ground, at the entrance ^ J 
kcep^ their head, to catch other \nfeas i^l ic 
jail in it. A fpot of ground is fometiinc 
entirely perforated in this manner. 
The per tea infeas of this genus are n oftly 
veiy beautiful, as to merit a^ei “ 
th.e curious in imcrofcopic obfen 
well as in natural rofearches 
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