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CERAMBYX MOSCHAT US. 
CeuOe TERA. 
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- CENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenna articulated, and tapering to the end. Shells long and 
narrow, four joints im each foot. “Lhorax with lateral fpines or-tu- 
bercles. 
SPECIFIC CHAR AGT BR wt tina 
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Antenna length of the body. Shells green, changeable, purple, 
eapper colour, &c. Body dark blue. 
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Creramsyx J on Thorace fpinofo, elytris obtufis viridibus ni- 
entibus, a muticis antennis mediocribus. 
an. Sy/t. Nat. 2. 627. a4 —Faun. Suec. oe 
Gar awnyx odoratus, &c. Degeer. Inf. 5. 64. 2. f 
_SCARABAUS. — Raj.—Frifch. 
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Few Infedis vary more in their colours fie the Cu “Mor 
chatus ; in fome {pecimens the Green colour is very predate in 
ethers ‘the’ Copper colour ; inifome the Purple is: the moft vividy and 
again in others the colours are fo blended as to appear altogether of . 
dull brown. They feed on the foft wood of willow trees; are 
very plenty in most places in fummer, and emit a very powerful mufk- 
like odour. : ; 
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