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Genus Vill JJ&^ 



jThis tribe is much more (lender in the body than th6 

 preceding ; many of them are fuperior in length ; and 

 they all glow with the moft brilliant tints of green, 

 purple, yellow, and brovvn. The generic charafters are, 

 a horny roftrum, porrefted, ftrait, and bivalved f • 



Thefe animals are generally found in fvvampy meadow 

 ground, where, like the preceding tribe, they prove vfiry 

 troublefome to cattle. They are provided with a ftingj 

 which inflicts a very painful wound, if you incautioufly 

 endeavour to lay hold of theai. The probofcis, though 

 Iharp enough to perforate the thickeft Ikin, is neverthe- 

 lefs perforated, andfupplies the place of a pump, in fuck- 

 ing out the blood of animals. 



Inufca crabroniformis J, the ferruginous afllis. The 

 thorax is gibbous ; the abdomen oval, flender, and ta- 

 pering § ; the three lirll fegments of the abdomen arc 

 black, the reft yellow ; the feet and wings are of an iron 

 colour. The graziers imagine^ and perhaps with juilice, 

 that of all the infect tribe, this Is the raofl noxious to 

 black cattle; the very ftoife of their wings fets them a- 

 i'unning ; and before tliey ftop, they generally mcike their 

 efcape into a river, if any is near ^. 



f Syft. Nat. p. ioc6. \ Vide Mouffet, p, 46. 



^ Ados d'Llpllil, 1736, p. 29. * Hoifr.agel, t. 16. 



