CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 15 



. Mr. LISTEB to Mr. WEAY. 

 M. Lister D. Wray S. 



PRIDIE vesperi insectum animal admodum lucens in 

 acre vidi, cepi, notavi, scripsi. Ratione lucis Cicindela 

 merito appellanda est : sin autem propius et claro sole 

 aniinalculum perspexeris, Scarabaeorum tribu familiaque 

 esse diceres. Corpore erat parvo, longiusculo, tenui, 

 aequaliter lato ; quoad superficiem, laevi planoque ; quoad 

 colorem, alas, alarumque thecas, caput, fusco aut pullo. 

 Tegumentum capitis clypeum inversum lepide imitabatur. 

 Caput subter, ratione et operculi sui, et corporis, mini- 

 mum ^rat (atque hinc tegumentum ejus ad latera sua 

 perspicuum), a duobus nigerrimis splendentibusque oculis 

 dispartitum. Caput duse brevissimae tenuissimaeque An- 

 tennae ornabant. Humeri nulli : nam supra, tegumento 

 tantum, alarumque thecis, destinguebatur animalculi cor- 

 pus : subter, aliter res se habet. Tres pedum tenuissi- 

 morum ordines, ad fabricam et similitudinem vulgaris 

 muscae nigrae facti : quorum duo mox infra caput rubenti 

 collo inserebantur. Tumet thorax, rotundus, laBvis, 

 splendens; cujus basi alterum pedum par adhaerent. 

 Denique venter sex annulis imbricatim venustissime dis- 

 positis constabat : quorum ultimis iste liquor bipartitus 

 ad instar aquae marinae lucens micansque inerat. De die 

 caput sursum tollere gaudet : lente et raro se loco movet : 

 Utrumque more Bufonis. Vale. 



Col. Divi Jolmnnis, 6 Cal. Julii, 1667. 



Mr. DENT to Mr. WBAY. 



SIR, Mr. Mayfeild could not procure any dried 

 Mayds or TJwrnback at the mart. He helped me to a 

 fresh TkornbacJc, which he said was full grown : its weight 

 was ten pounds. It was female, and had very many 



