NATURAL HISTORY. 
time of making hay. What care does Pro- 
vidence take to accommodate man with a 
never-ceafing variety of delights, adapted to 
charm every fenfe ! 
Genus XVII. 
L E P T U R A. 
Character. 
^3? HEIR antenn® are fetaceous or briftly ; 
the elytra diminifli in breadth towards the 
extremity ; and the thorax is round and flen-' 
der.- 
L E P T U R A A R C U A T A. 
7/2e RAIN-BOW LEPTURA, 
ARIES in refpeft to fi'ie, and is of a 
deep black ground,, refembling velvet. The 
antennae are of R bright yellow, and nearly 
as long as the body. The elytra are adorn- 
cd with high flame- coloured crofs bars, 
which are formed by a down of a irroft re*- 
fulgent golden yellow. Viewed through the 
inicrofcop'e, it appears like velvet inlaid with 
topa'ics i and, when alTilled wUh the I'olar 
R 2 rays 
