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black, coated with brilliant green scales with 

 a silvery sheen, and pale erect hairs. Its 

 legs are yellowish. It is found on oak leaves, 

 often in swarms. It makes a beautiful object 

 under the microscope. 



The Long-horns are represented by the 

 Double-barred Longhorn( J ff hagium bifasciatum)j 

 Plate VIII., Fig. 11. It is brownish-black 

 with two yellowish-brown bars upon the 

 wing-cases. It feeds upon decaying trees 

 in the autumn. The species of this group 

 are exceedingly numerous in the hotter parts 

 of the globe, where they find immense 

 quantities of fallen trees on which to feed. 

 As travellers have scarcely done more than 

 penetrate some of the largest of African and 

 South American forests, we may expect that 

 our knowledge of the long-horned beetles 

 will be largely increased after a more minute 

 inspection of these great woods. 



The Pseudotrimera are mostly beetles of 

 small size. The Sevenspot Ladybird (Cocci- 

 nella septempunctata), Plate VIII., Fig. 12, is 

 a familiar friend. It has a black head and 

 thorax, and red wing-cases, with seven black 

 spots upon them. It is an insect of much 



