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INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 52. Lytta, 



Tefludina- Black ; (hells wnited, rough, the fides covered with whitifh 

 W. duft. 



Inhabits the Cape cf 'good hope : large. 



Thorax widely emarginate before for the reception of the head, 

 black, fprinkled at the edge with whitifh dull : fhglls very- 

 gibbous, with raifed fmall dots : legs fimple black. 



Gibbus* 



Planus* 



Mi nut us. 



Black \ fhells with 3 raifed lines. 



Inhabits Arabia ; middle-fized and very gibbous. 

 Shells obtufe with 3 raifed fmooth lines : fore -flanks with aflrong 

 tooth in the middle and at the tip. 



Black ; (hells with a frngle raifed line. 



Inhabits Arabia -, half the fize ot the lalt : legs unarmed. 



Black ; (hells quite fmooth. 



Inhabits the Eafi ; very fmall and glabrous. 



Thorax with 2 impreifed dots on the brck : legs unarmed. 



52. LYTTA. Antenna filiform : feelers 4, 

 unequal, the hind-ones clavate : thorax 

 roundifh : head inflected gibbous : 

 JhelLs foft, flexile, as long as the ab- 

 domen. 



Vepcatoria Green : antennas black. 



Inhabits Europe^ on the Afli and Elder trees. 

 Cantharis velicatoria. Qli<v, Ins. 46. tab. i.fig. !• 

 This infecl is ufed in pharmacy, chiefly for the purpofe of rai- 

 ling blifters : it multiplies greatly and has a naufeous fmell, not 

 much unlike that of mice : the odorous particles exhaled from 

 them are extremely corrofive. 



Segeium. Golden; (hells green. 



Inhabits Barbary ; among corn r lefs than the lafh 

 Antennae black : head and thorax fometimes golden fometimes 

 green with a gold glofs : body golden : legs dusky. 



Nitidula. Green bronzed : (hells teflaceous : antennas black. 

 Inhabits the Cape ; lefs than L. vificatoria. 



Collaris; Black ; crown thorax and legs ferruginous: (hells azure. 

 Inhabits Southern parts of Rujffra ; large. 



Antennae ferruginous : edge of the thorax a little black. The 

 male is a$ fmall again as the female.^ 



Gigas. 



