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PLATE CXXXVIII; 



FIG. I. II. m. 



CASSIDA NOBILIS* 



COLEOPTERA. 



Wings two, covered by two fhells, divided by a longitudinal 

 future. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Antennae knotted, enlarging towards the ends. Shells and Thora:^, 

 bordered. Head concealed under the corfelet. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Greyifh Green ; on the center of each Shell a ftreak of gold, 

 which dies with the Infedl. Body beneath black. 



Cassida Nobilis: grifea elytris linea coerulea nitidiflima, 

 Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 575. 4. 

 OUv. Inf. 97. tab. 2. Jig. 24. 

 Raj. Inf. 107. 7. 



This fpecies is far lefs common than Caffida Viridis, It is a very 

 beautiful Infedl ; but, like moft other minute fpecies, appears with 

 infinitely more advantage in the Microfcope for opake obje£ls j in- 

 deed, without fuch afliftance, it is impoflible to perceive the beauty 

 of that part by which it is diflinguiflied from every other fpecies of 

 the fame genus we have in England, the lines of fine gold and blue, 

 which are feen on the middle of the Shells. 



When the Infe£l is alive, it is of a pale greenifh colour, inclining 

 to brownifh grey, and along the middle of each Shell appears a 

 fplendid ftreak, or line of gold, margined with a fine pale Iky blue, 

 alternately varying into green, and gold. By the Microfcope we 



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