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pop up by hundreds. They live on flies and little shrimps, 
which abound on the sea-shore. 
The Cicindela campestris (Fig. 523), or Tiger beetle, is of a 
beautiful green spotted with white; the abdo- 
men is of a bronze-red. In this country it is 
the commonest of the genus. The Cicindela 
hybrida, of a dull green, relieved by ten light 
bands, inhabits sandy woods; the Cicindela 
maritima differs from the preceding. The 
Cicindela sylvatica, which flies very well, is not 
easy to catch, and is to be often met with in 
| the warm glades of the forest of Fontainbleau 
and Montmorency ; itis notunfrequent here. Its 
colour is brown, spotted with white ; it diffuses 
a strong smell of the rose, to which succeeds, 
on being seized, the acrid odour of the secretion which it dis- 
gorges. We here represent the Crcindela Dumoulinii (Fig. 524), 

Fig, 523.—Tiger Beetle 
(Cicindela cumpestris). 

Fig. 524.— Cicindela Dumoulinii. Fig. 525.— Cicindela rugosa. Fig. 626. Cicindela scalaris 
the Cicindela rugosa (Fig. 525), the Cicindela scalaris (Fig. 526), 
the Cicindela heros (Fig. 527), the Cicindela quadrilineata (Fig. 
528), and the Cicindela capensis (Fig. 529). 
The ferocity of these insects is remarkable. They quickly tear 
off the wings and legs of their victim, and suck out the con- 
tents of its abdomen. Often when they are disturbed in this 
agreeable occupation, not wishing to leave it, they fly away with 
their prey; their flight, however, is not sufficiently powerful to 



















