INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 52. Lytta. 499 



Gigas, Azure ; breaft ferruginous. 



Inhabits Guinea. Oliv. Ins. 46. tab. 1. fig. 9. 

 Size of L. veficatoria : one /ex has the jhells flriate, the other 

 fmooth. 



Syriaca. Villous, green-blue : thorax rounded, ferruginous* 

 Inhab* Southern Europe. Oli<v. In/ 46. tab. i.fig. £. 



Ruficolhs. Glabrous, green-gold : thorax rufous, tapering before, 



Inhabits Eali India. Oliv. Ins. 46. tab. 1 . jig. 6. 



Tefiacea. Above teftaceous: fhells with a large oblong black fpot 

 near the tip. 

 Inhabits Tranquehar. 



Head teftaceous : mouth and antennae black : tharax punctured 

 teftaceous : Jhells fmooth : body black. 



Fefiiva. Shining braily-green : fhells teftaceous with braffy-green 

 fpots. 

 Inhabits Siberia. Pall. Iter. 2. p. yzi.n. 54. 

 Body entirely green bronze : fpot on the Jhells varying. 



Marginata. Black . margins f the fhells pale cinereous. 

 Inhabits the Cape. Oli<u. Ins. 46. tab. i.fig* 2. 

 Lefs than L. veficatoria : above opake, beneath cinereous. 



Vittata. ^ Shells black, with a yellow fillet and margin. 

 Inhabits America. 



Cantharis vittata. Oli<v. Ins. 49, tab. 1, fig. 3*. 

 Head yellowifii : crown with 2 black fpots : thorax black with 

 3 yellow lines : abdomen and legs black, 



Atrata. Body black, immaculate. 



Inhabits Barbary. Meloepenfylvanica. Degeer. t. 13. fig. i'i 

 Half the fize of the laft, and entirely deep black. 



Erythroce- Black ; head teftaceous : thorax and fhells with cinereous 

 phala. ii nes# 



Inhabits Auflria, Herb/. Arch. Ins. 6. tab $0.fig. 2. 

 Head teftaceous with a black line down the middle: mouth black: 

 thorax channelled. 



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 Oculata% Black, with a yellow callous dot behind the eyes. 

 Inhabits Guinea ; lefs than the former ones. 

 Body entirely black immaculate : behind the eyes each fide 1$ a 

 large raifed yellow dot. Female apterous, Jhells abbreviated. 

 3 R 2 Dubia. 



