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it inhabits Gardens in Italy. Two years previous, however, to tlifl 

 appearance of Entomologia Syfiematica* , Roffius had defcribed and 

 figured this fpecieS in his Fauna Etrufca f, as an Italian infeft, fo 

 that the latter muft be confidered as the firft defcriber of it. Pro- 

 bably it has not been noticed by any other continental writer fince J : 

 as a native of Great Britain it is certainly undefcribed. 



Mnfca pulchella we muft efteem as a very fcarce infe6l in this 

 country. Our fpecimens were taken in the Wilds of Kent, near 

 Faverfham, as.d it has occurred, though rarely, as we are informed, 

 nearer the vicinity of London. 



The upper figure in the plate exhibits an enlarged reprefentation 

 of this curious infect in a flying pofition, the natural lize appears 

 below. 



* 17-92. 



+ Publiflied in 1790. 



$ Gmelin omits this and many other very interefting infects defcribed by Fabricius, 

 frMcB we might expert to find in his improved edition of the Liimaean Syflema 



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