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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
longitudinal black marks. 
Its habits nearly correspond with 
those of the Musca Chamceleon. 
Like that insect it once wore the 
appearance of an aquatic, and like it 
also in its last or perfect state, ex- 
ists by extracting with its Trunk the 
Nectar from flowers. It is to be 
taken in June. 
Musca lateralis. 
Specific Chaeactee. 
Thorax black. Abdomen bright 
red or brown with a line of black 
from the Thorax ; the last segment 
black with hairs or spines. 
Visits flower gardens in the month 
of June. 
Coleopteba. 
Pyrocliroa coccinea. 
Specific Chaeactee. 
Beneath legs, and antennae black. 
Head, Thorax and Shell bright red 
inclining to brown. 
The above insect, which Fabricius 
has, after that celebrated French 
Naturalist Geoffroy made a new 
genus under the title Pyrocliroa *, 
has in general been considered by 
the collectors of insects as the Can- 
tharis Sanguinolenta of Linnaeus, but 
this cannot be the case, as the des- 
criptions by no means corresponds ; 
nor is it the Lampyris coccinea of 
that author, as quoted by Fabricus, 
we are therefore inclined to think 
that notwithstanding it is so plenty 
with us it was unknown to the Swed- 
ish Naturalist at the time lie wrote ; 
especially as the specimen was not 
in his cabinet. 
It is very common in England 
in July 
* Geoff. Inf. 1. 388.1 tab. 6, fig. 4, 
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