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PLATE LVI. 



FIG. I. 

 PYROCHROA COCCINEA*, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Beneath, Legs and Antennae black. Head, Thorax and Shells 

 bright red, inclining to brown. 



The above Tnfeil which Fabricius has, after that celebrated French 

 Naturalift GeofFroy, made a new genus, under the title Pyrochroa *, 

 has in general been confidered by the Collectors of Infeils as the Gati" 

 tharis Sangu'inolenta of Linnaeus ; but this cannot be the cafe, as the 

 defcriptions by no means correfponds ; nor is it the Lampyris Cocci ft ea 

 of that author, as quoted by Fabricius ; we are therefore inclined to 

 think, that-notwithftanding it is fo plenty with us, it was unknown to 

 the Swedifli Naturalift at the time he wrote; efpeciallya' ^''— '*--'•-- 

 Was not contained in his cabinet. 



It is very common in England, in Jnly. 



• Geoff. /»/: I. 388. I. iab. 6. fig^ 4» 



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