THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



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Some groups are remarkable for tlie richness of their 

 garments, as for instance the Buprestidaa, which owe their 

 French surname of "Richards" (millionaires) to their met- 

 allic lustre; such are also the Curculiones, which gleam 

 like precious stones, and which, like the preceding, are 

 used instead of them in India and China, where they are 

 made into trinkets for women, pins, and ear-drops. 



Among the brilliant genera we find also the Cetonise, 



45. Cctonia cendea. 



44. Cetofiia Cervus. 



40. Cefonia sanguinoJenta. 



of which the elytra are often variegated with the most 

 beautiful tints and tufted; and lastly the Caral^i and the 

 Calosomee, all glittering with gold. 



As the great Linnteus said, Nature takes no leaps 

 [Natura non facit saltum), and among insects she proceeds, 

 as elsewhere, by insensible transitions. 



We are accustomed to recognize a butterfly only by its 



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