PREDACEOUS GROUND-BEETLES. 
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Then- larvae dig holes in the sand, often a foot or more in depth, at 
the mouth of which they lie in wait for their prey, dragging it, when 
[ FlB ' 6 ' ] captured, to the bottom of their 
burrows. The name of the princi- 
pal genus, Cicinclela , is derived 
from the Latin, Candela, a candle 
or taper, and was applied by the 
ancients to the glow-worm. The 
laree siVo • species are all of medium or rather 
- “* Oicmdela sexguttata of Pabricius, 
of a brilliant metallic green color with Z?,! ° f Pabricius > 
one at the end of each witm- ’ ■ ° Je °" 1101:8 at tlie side, and 
it is often seen running Z™; “ T °*' ° Ur ’ 1,0st bea «tiful belles, 
doubt, for wood-eating larvm. g§ “ tLe f ° reSt ’ iu searcb > uo 
I amity n. CARABIDiE, (Ground-beetles.) 
b “" gi r “• 
(Pig. 7.j f he y are readily distinguished 
- Lorn the Cicindelidse by the position of the 
head, it being directed forwards instead of 
downwards, so that the face and parts of the 
^ mouth are fully seen when viewed from 
This is one of the most numerous families iiT the mXi'of 
eleven hundred distinct snecies i, 9 v i„„ i dcr ol Col eoptera, 
habiting North America alone. Tliev are'' nTuallTl , <i “ 5 " ibeJ “ 
“« «*m, but are sometimes pJlZlZ tZT' T "*■* 
found upon the ground under stones • \ '°y ar e almost always 
«"» attempt to 
of the smaller species however „ r I 7 gl>eat ra i mllt ^ Some 
in the first warm days of spring andT f 5 consi(leial >le numbers 
about our lights i„ summer °‘' 0 SOmeti “ es s ““ «f'»e 
b»«i r ac r "“ biis ° f 
'"to a very important^ taSSd' T* "«<• 
plication of other insects. There are f 
almost universally carnivorous h.bi« tftta wIT”“ “ 
genera Omophron and Zabrus have been tnowu'l , f'b bl "' c ' es of tU6 
jurionh extent, upon the soft grata 0 f "^g » » <» 
liS — ' «• I— W sSXatl^' 
