. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 5. COLEOPTERA. 493 pieces, fitted for trituration ; and that the existence of a complicated apparatus for an excrementitial secretion, possessing ammoniacal qualities, is one of the most striking featiures of the Carabi.] They are divided into two tribes. The first, that of the Cicindeleice, Latr., comprises the genus CiciNDELA, Linu.,— Which have the tip of the maxillae furnished with a corneous, slender hook, articulated at its base with the
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 5. COLEOPTERA. 493 pieces, fitted for trituration ; and that the existence of a complicated apparatus for an excrementitial secretion, possessing ammoniacal qualities, is one of the most striking featiures of the Carabi.] They are divided into two tribes. The first, that of the Cicindeleice, Latr., comprises the genus CiciNDELA, Linu.,— Which have the tip of the maxillae furnished with a corneous, slender hook, articulated at its base with these under jaws. The head is robust, with great eyes, jaws very advanced and toothed, and a very short tonguelet hidden behind the mentura. The labial palpi are distinctly composed of four joints ; they are commonly hirsute, as well as the maxillary palpi. The majority of the species are exotic. Some species have a tooth in the middle of the notch of the mentum, with the labial palpi wide apart at the base. Manticora, Fab., has the tarsi alike in both sexes, with cylindrical joints. Manticora majcillosa, Fab. [and M. la- tipennis, Waterh.] from Caffraria. M. pallida, Fab., forming M'Leay's genus Platychile, [figured in King's Jahrbucher]. Those species which have the three basal joints of the anterior tarsi dilated in the males, with the body oblong or oval, and the thorax nearly square, compose the genera Megacephala, Latr., (with a transverse short upper lip); Oxycheila, Dej. (with a large triangular upper lip); Euprosopus, Latr., and Cicindela proper, which has the labial palpi not longer than the maxillary, the third joint of the former not manifestly thicker than the following joint, and the three dilated basal joints of the anterior male tarsi elongated. The body of the last-named insects is generally of a darker or lighter green colour, varied with shining metallic tints, and with white spots upon the elytra ; they frequent dry situations exposed to the sun, run very qui
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