Mr. Wray to Mr. Lifter- 19 



my remembrance ever met with it in England elfe- 

 where than in Mountainous Places, as Weftmoreland^ 

 Wales, Darby, York, and Stafford/hire, &c. 



Thofe Remarks you mention you would oblige me 

 much to communicate , I being very fond of feeing 

 any of your Produftions. 



I was much pleafed to underftand, that you do not 

 confine your Studies and Enquiries to Phytology on- 

 ly • but take in Zoology, and the whole Latitude 

 of natural Hiftory. Limolnfmre for Fifli and Fowl, 

 affords you a large Field, yet it is very much that in 

 one Winter you fhould meet with upwards of f o Spe- 

 cies, and I wifli I had the fight of your Defcriptions, 

 which I doubt not to be very exa& but becaufe they 

 cannot eafily be tranfmitted, I fiiall only defire a Ca- 

 talogue of their Names, that fo I may know what 

 there are I have not yet met with, 



Middleton, June 18, 1667, 



Mr. Lifter to Mr. Wray. 



M. Lifter. D. Wray S. 



TTyRidie vefperi infeclum Animal admodum lucens 

 in aere vidi, cepi, notavi, fcripfi. Ratione lu- 

 cis Cicindela merito appellanda eft : fin autem pro- 

 pius & claro fole animalculum perfpexeris, Scarabse- 

 orum tribu familiaque efle diceres. Corpore erat par- 

 vo, longiufculo, tenui, aequaliter lato - y quoad fuperfi- 

 ciem, lasvi planoque* quoad colorem,aias,alarumque 

 thecas, caput, fufco aut pullo. Tegumentum capi- 

 tis clypeum inverfum lepide imitabatur. Caput fub- 

 ter, ratione 8c operculi fui, & corporis, minimum erat, 

 (atque hinc tegumentum ejus ad latera fua perfpicu- 

 um ) a duobus nigerrimis fplendentibufque oculis dif- 

 partitum. Caput duse breviffimse tenuiflimseque An- 

 tennae ornabant. Humeri nulli 5 nam fupra, tegument 



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