50 PLATE DXXVII. 
MALacuivs rasciatus: elytris nigris: fafciis duabus rufis. Fab, 
Syft. Ent. 208, 4.—Sp. Inf. I. 262. 5.—Mant, 
I. 169. 8.— Ent. Sy/ft. I. a, 224. 13. 
Malachius fafciatus. Oliv. Inf. 27.10. 12. tab. I. fig. 2. 
CANTHARIS FASCIATA: thorace virefcente, elytris nigris: fafclis 
duabus rubris. Marfh. Ent. Brit. 1. 371. 11. 
TeLeruorus FASCIATUS. De Geer. 4. 76. 9. 
La cicidele 4 bandes rouges. Geoff. £. 177. 12. 
This is a very gay and pretty mfect: the antenne and legs are 
black: the head blackith, gloffed with fhining green, as is likewife 
the thorax: the wing-cafes are dufky purple with a broad band of 
red acrofs the middle, and another behind formed hy the junétion 
of the tips of the wing-cafes, the latter being of the fame red colour 
as the band in the middle. ‘The abdomen at the fides are red. 
The fmalleft figure denotes the natural fize. This fpecies is found 
among mofs. ; 
FiG, 
