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by ISIr. VV. E. Leach, in Scotland : this was met with on the bog 

 in which the battle of Bannockboum was fought, a wafte in the 

 vicinity of Stirling, and is the fole authority within our recollection 

 upon which we could venture to confider it a native of thefe 

 kingdoms. It is a moft interefting acquisition, and is represented in 

 its natural fize with all poffible fidelity, in two different pofitions. 



In addition to the character afTigned to this fpecies by Liunasus, we 

 ought to obferve that the thorax is lineated with black, and greyifli, a 

 circumftance to which Fabrjcius refers in the expreffion c< thorax Jub- 

 hneatus ;" in the fpecimen above defcribed, thefe lines are pretty 

 diftincl;, 



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