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Genus VI Chryjis, the Golden Fly* 



1 HIS tribe, like forae of the preceding, has no proborcis, 

 but a mouth furniflied with jaws : The antennse are fili- 

 form and bended, confilling of feveral articulations, of 

 which the firfl; is the longeft ; the abdomen is arched 

 underneath with a fcale on each iide ; the anus is dent- 

 ated, and armed with a projefting fling; the body is 

 covered above bj the wings, through which it Ihines as 

 if gilded *. 



Among this family the ignita, or flaming chryfis, 

 Hands diflinguifhed by its refplendent colours. The fore 

 part of the head is green and gold, and the hind part of 

 a beautiful azure ; the thorax is likewife azure, with a 

 mixture of green : The abdomen is green and yellow be- 

 fore, and behind of a copper red, rcfembling that metal 

 .when highly poiifnedf. 



* Sjft. Nat. Ord. V. Gen. i. f Earbut, p. %$^. 



