COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS. 
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throughout their whole length, with the second 
^oint shorter than the following, and they are di- 
rected forwards ; the body is oblong ; the head not 
concealed within the thorax, and the mandibles are 
furnished with only two or three teeth. A, margi- 
natus is very common in Brazil, and always frequents 
the leaves of plants. It is of a dull brownish-black 
colour above, with the sides of the thorax, outer 
edge of the elytra, and the suture, margined with 
blood-red. The head, and all the under parts of 
the body, are likewise of that colour, the apex of 
the thighs, the tibiae, and tarsi, being black. 
CLYTHRA HIRTA. 
PLATE XXIX. Fig. 2. 
Fabr. Syst. Eleuth — Olivier, No. 96, pi. 2, fig. 18. 
The head, thorax, and scutellum, as well as all 
the under parts of the body, are blue, and covered 
with rather long ash-coloured hairs. The elytra are 
brownish red, w r ith three black spots on each, one 
on the shoulder and two others behind the middle. 
It occurs in Barbary. 
