CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 15 



Mr. LisTEK to Mr. Wbay. 

 M. Lister D. Wray S. 



Pridie vesperi insectum animal admodum lucens in 

 aere vidi, cepi, notavi, scripsi. Ratione lucis Cicindela 

 merito appellanda est : sin autem propius et claro sole 

 animalculum perspexeris, Scarabseorum tribu familiaqne 

 esse diceres. Corpore erat parvo, longiuscido, tenui, 

 sequaliter lato ; quoad superficiem, Isevi planoque ; quoad 

 colorem, alas, alammque tliecas, caput, fusco aut puUo. 

 Tegumentum capitis clypeum inversum lepide imitabatin\ 

 Caput subter, ratione et operculi sui, et corporis, mini- 

 mum erat (atque liinc tegumentum ejus ad latera sua 

 perspicuum), a duobus nigerrimis splendentibusque oculis 

 dispartitum. Caput duse brevissimse tenuissimseque An- 

 tennae ornabant. Humeri nuUi : nam supra, tegumento 

 tantiun, alarumque thecis, destinguebatur animalculi cor- 

 pus : subter, aliter res se habet. Tres pedum tenuissi- 

 morum ordines, ad fabricam et similitudinem vulgaris 

 muscse nigrae facti : quorum duo mox infra caput rubenti 

 coUo inserebantur. Tumet thorax, rotundus, tevis, 

 splendens ; cujus basi alteram pedum par adhserent. 

 Denique venter sex annulis imbricatim venustissime dis- 

 positis constabat : quorum ultimis iste liquor bipartitus 

 ad instar aquae marinse lucens micansque inerat. De die 

 caput sursum tollere gaudet : lente et raro se loco movet : 

 Utrumque more Bufonis, Vale. 



Col. Divi Johanuis, 6 Cal. Julii, 16G7. 



Mr. Dent to Mr. Wbay. 



Sir, — Mr. Mayfeild could not procure any dried 

 Mayds or Thornback at the mart. He helped me to a 

 fresh TJtornhack, which he said was full grown : its weight 

 was ten pounds. It was female, and had very many 



