54 The Hiflory of ANIMALS. 
> It is not uncommon under our hedges, and, if taken carefully up, may be kept 
alive many days on frefh turfs of grafs, and will continue to (bine in the dark. Ray calls 
the male of this fpecies Scarabasus lampyris fordide nigricans corpore longo angufto, 
five Cicindela mas; and the other, or female, Cicindela impennis five fcemina. 
Cantharis elytris nigricantihus , thorace ruhro , nigra macula . 
The Cantharis.) with blackifh , exterior wings 3 and with a red thorax 
with a black fpot. 
This is a large fpecies: it is more than half an inch long, and about a quarter of an 
inch in diameter, and is fofter to the touch than the generality of the beetle kind : 
the head is flatted and black, but under the eyes fomewhat reddifh : the mouth is 
fma.ll and forcipated j there are a pair of very fhort and fmall antennae at the mouth : 
the others are about half the length of the body, and are compofed of eleven joints; 
they are reddifh toward their origin, and brown all the way thence to the extremity : 
the thorax is deprefled on the hinder part, and cordated j the edges are fomewhat pro¬ 
minent, and the whole is reddifh, except that there is a black fpot in the upper part 
contiguous to the head : the exterior wings are plain, fmooth, of an oblong and li¬ 
near figure, very foft and flexile, of a filky ftrudture, and of a brownifh-black co¬ 
lour : the body is brown, except that the lafl joint is reddifh, and there is a tinge of 
the fame colour all along the fides; the fides are all the way comprefled, and the in- 
cifures are laid in a plicated manner over one another ; they are very foft, and their ex¬ 
tremities are mammillary. 
It is very frequent with us about houfes and under hedges. Ray calls it Cantharus 
fepiarius major elytris nigricantibus, dorfo five thorace fupino obfcure rufo. 
Cantharis elytris rubris , thorace rubro y nigra macula. 
The red-winged Cantharus , with a red thorax , with a black fpot . 
This is but a fmall fpecies: the body is black, but the exterior wings are of a bright 
and elegant red, and the breafi: is of the fame colour, but has a fpot of black in it: 
the antennae are flender; the exterior wings are very foft, lilky, and flexile; the under 
are thin and brown. 
It is not very common with us. I found a great number of them, fome years lince, 
at Mount-Sorrel in Leicefterfhire. 
Cantharis elytris nigris fafciis duabus rubris . 
The Cantharis , with the exterior wings blacky with two red\ tranfverfe 
lines . 
This is a very fmall fpecies, it fcarce exceeds a loufe in fize : the legs and the anten¬ 
na are black; the head and the thorax are of a greenifh colour; the exterior wings are 
of a deep, and fomewhat glofly, black, and have each two tranfverfe ftreaks of red on 
them; the one of thefe lines is near the bafe, the other very near the apex or extre¬ 
mity, and the fides of the body are alfo reddifh. 
It is not uncommon under our hedges, and in paftures; I have frequently met with 
it on the alcea, or vervain mallow. 
The other fpecies of the Cantharis are, 1. The large, yellowifh, or orange-coloured, 
Cantharis, without fpots. 2. The black-winged Cantharis, with a red thorax, and 
a black fpot on it. 3. The red-winged Cantharis, with a black thorax, with a red 
Ipot on it, 4. The brafly-green Cantharis, with the exterior wings reddifh toward 
their edges. 5. The brafly-green Cantharis, with the exterior wings red at the tips. 
6. The black Cantharis, with the exterior wings yellow at the extremities. 7. The 
brown Cantharis, with the exterior wings yellowish at the extremity, and the bread: 
reddifh. 8. The black Cantharis, with livid wings. 
T E N E B R I O. 
T H E antennas of the Tenebrio are flender, oblong, and filiform : -the elytra ai;e 
joined together, and there are no interior wings. 
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