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PLATE CXXXVIII. 



FIG. I. h. in. 



CASSIDA NOBILIS. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Wings two, covered by two fliells, divided by a longitudinal 

 future. 



CENEkIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna; knotted, enlarging towards the ends. Shells and Thora* 

 bordered. Head concealed under the corfelet. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Greyifh Green ; on the center of each Shell a ftreak of gold,, 

 which dies with the Infedt. Body beneath black. 



Cassida Noeilis: grifea elytris linea ccerulea nitidiflima. 

 Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 575. 4. 

 Oliv. Inf. 97. tab. 2. fig. 24. 

 Raj. Inf. 107. 7. 



This fpecies is far lefs common than Cajjida Vlridis. It is a very 

 beautiful Infeft ; but, like moft other minute fpecies, appears with 

 infinitely more advantage in the Microfcope for opake objedts ; in- 

 deed, without fuch afliftance, it is impoffible to perceive the beauty 

 of that part by which it is diftinguifhed from every other fpecies of 

 the fame genus we have in England, the lines of fine gold and blue, 

 which are feen on the middle of the Shells. 



When the Infect is alive, it is of a pale greenifh colour, inclining 

 to brownifh grey, and along the middle of each Shell appears a 

 fplendid ftreak, or line of gold, margined with a fine pale fky blue, 

 alternately varying into green, and gold. By the Microfcope we 



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