OF INSECTS AND REPTILES. 



36. The fmall, green, purple, and gold-yellow horned Beetle (I), is 

 fometimes, but rarely, on heaths and mountainous pailures, in 

 June and July, in warm fummers. The head, face, thorax, belly, 

 and legs, are of a beautiful purple, bright and mining, like filk. 

 The Elytra are of a grafs-green, elegantly fpotted with a gold- 

 yellow. The clavated Antenna or horns, and the eyes, are a 

 gloffy black; the latter full and prominent. I met with this 

 here defcribed in the rectory-den at Simonburn, in a remarkable 

 warm fummer. I have iince obferved it on /f^nk-common, 

 among the heath, near Wo&dley-Sheeh, in Tynedale^ in July. 



37. The beautiful infect of the Scarab or Beetle-kind, called The 

 Henbane-Cimcx (m), from its favourite plant the Henbane ; is fre- 

 quent under its foliage in the latter end of May. The head is 

 black, with a red fpot in the center. The thorax andfcutellum are 

 variegated with red and black ; the elytra are red, with two 

 black fpots in the middle; the wings under them are brown; 

 the antennae and legs black ; the trunk compofed of four joints. 



(I) Curculio parvus fplendide viridis. Petiv. Gaz. p. 77. n. 6. Scarabaeus naficornis 

 purpureo-auratus. fr'nfch. Germ. 12. p. 17. t. 8. Curculio cseruleo-viridis nitens ; an- 

 ttnnis a'tris. Linn, Faun. Suec. , p. 157. n. 456. fequenti Luna defcriptione. 



*' Eft e mediae magnitudi.riis.fpeciebus hie curculio. Totus capite, thorace, roftro, elytris, 

 " abdomine, pedibus, c^eruleo-viridi-inauratus feu fericeo .Hitidiffimus. verfus pofteriora 

 " ad mod inn obtufus. Totum corpus punfl-is minutifllmis excavatis perfufum. oculi & an- 

 " tinna: folse nigrs ; harum infimus articulus reliquis nullo modo lohgior eft, ut in reliquis. 

 tlavatae tamen funt antennx, ut in congeneribus. hie minime falit." 



(m) Cimcx fylveftris minor, corpore oblongo, angufio, colore defuper rubro nigris ma- 

 culis pifto. Raj. Inf. p. 55. Cimex miniatus nigris maculis notatus hyofcyamo fere gau- 

 dens. Lift. loq. p. 39;. n. 39. mut. t. 31. f. 21. Cimex hyofeamoidcs ruber, maculis 

 nigris. Pet. Gaz. t. 66. f. 2. Cimex oblongus rubro nigroque variegatus, alis fufcis im- 

 maculatis. Linn. Faun. Suec. p 208. n. 665. 



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