102 INSECTS ABROAD. 



a lopsteT," would have been gratified. The colour of this large 

 insect is wholly black, except a slight edging of golden down on 



the front and hinder edge of the thorax, and a coating of similar 

 down on the inside of the tibice of the four hinder legs. 



The Beetle which is shown in the accompanying illustration 

 is, though not so large as the preceding insect, a very conspi- 

 cuous species, on account of its splendid metallic colouring. The 

 colour is not easily described, for the green and red vary so 

 much according to the light in which the insect is viewed, that 

 the Beetle may with equal truth be called green glossed with 

 red, or red glossed with green. The head is very large, and the 

 thorax comparatively small. The antenna?, jaws, and legs are 

 long in proportion to the size of the body. The club of the 

 antennae possesses four joints, and each jaw has several small 



Fig. 47.—' yclommatu* tarandns. 

 (Red, jli s d v, Itli g 'Id green.) 



teeth near the tip. and two much larger teeth placed so as to 

 divide the jaw into three tolerably equal portions. 



The colour of the jaws is very beautiful, and arranged in a 

 rather singular manner. As far as I can make out by careful 

 examination, the original hue is metallic red, with a tinge of 

 brown. But their whole surface is covered with a multitude of 

 punctures, and the interior of each puncture is deep, shining 

 n Thus the reader will see that if lighted from above, 

 when the interior of the pnnctures becomes illuminated, the green 

 predominates over the red; whereas, if the light falls on the 

 insect from the side, the interior of the punctures is thrown into 



