NATURAL HISTORY. 
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mountain, or his finny prey in the deep, than 
he could by the prefence of the fun.-~ 
Thus, being deprived of that artificial light 
which he can only polTcfs from civili7,ation. 
Nature has fortunately created thefe admirable 
infcdls for his convenience. 
Genus XX. 
C A N T H A R I S. 
Charaiier. 
TP heir horns or feelers are briftly ; their 
breaft is margined ; and their elytra, of 
wing-cafes, are flexible. They are com- 
monly called Spanifli flics; but this is erro- 
neous, as they are a diflind genus from the 
cantharidcs. 
GANT HARIS LIVID A. 
The LEAD-COLOURED CANTHARIS. 
^JL^HIS infcdl varies in the colour of the c- 
lytra ; but this difference only arifes from 
the difference of fcx. ^'heir horns ai e all 
black, except the articulation near the bale, 
which are yellow. They have black eyes; 
and 
