The Hiftory of ANIMAL S. 
Mordella ohlonga atra cauda aculeo terminates. 
The oblong.> black Mordella , with an aculeated tail. 
This is a fmall fpecies; it’s length is about a fixth of an inch ; it’s breadth is not equal 
to half that meafure : it’s colour is black; it is fmooth and fomewhat gloffy on the 
greater part of it’s furface : the head is fmall and indebted ; the exterior wings are not 
at all ftriated ; the thorax is fmooth, and very convex; the antennae are very flender, 
truncated, and articulated : the body grows gradually fmaller toward the tail, where it 
terminates in a fharp point or prickle, which is black, and longer than the extremity 
of the wings, but is too weak to inflibt a wound : the legs are flender, and confider- 
ably long, and it hops with them very nimbly. 
It is frequent with us in the flowers of the dandelion and hawkweeds. 
Mordella fubrotunda atra opaca. 
The roundifh^ opake , black Mordella . 
This is a very fmall fpecies: it is fhorter and thicker than the precedent, and ap¬ 
proaches to a roundifh figure : the head is fmall; the thorax is elevated, and of a 
dufky deep black, not at all gloffy ; the exterior wings are of the fame dufky black, 
and are fomewhat fhorter than the body ; the legs are flender and long j it leaps very 
nimbly. 
It is common in our gardens among the lettuces and endive: it has been called by 
fome Gyrinus nigricans minor. 
Mordella ovata , ccerulea , nitida , tibiis jerrugineis. 
The fining ,, blue , oval-bodied Mordella , with ferrugineous legs. 
This is a very fmall but a very elegant fpecies ; it is fcarce larger than a flea: it’s 
body is fhort, and approaches to an oval form; it’s thorax and back are both very 
convex and fmooth, and it’s colour a deep, but very beautiful and glofly, blue : it’s legs 
are long 5 the thighs thick, robuft, and whitifh : the lower part of the legs ferrugine- 
ous j it hops very nimbly. 
It is common in our gardens among the cabbages, while young. Ray calls it Capri- 
cornus exiguus faltatrix. 
Mordella fubrotunda atro-cenea. 
The roundifh , black Mordella , with a braffy tinge . 
This is one of the fmallefl of the Mordellae; it is confiderably lefs than a flea, 
and islall over of a deep, but very gloffy, black, with a fine tinge of braffy yellow in 
it: the belly and legs are of the fame fine black, but without the yellow : the exterior 
wings are flriated, and the ftriae compofed of five fmall excavated fpots. 
It is not uncommon in our gardens early in fpring. 
The other fpecies of Mordella are, 1. The yellow Mordella. 2. Tb t e roundifh, 
moufe-coloured Mordella. 3. The roundifh, black, opake, but dotted Mordella. 
4. The roundifh, black, gloffy Modella, with the antennae and the legs yellow. 
5. The oblong, black Mordella, with a ferrugineous fpot in the middle of the exte¬ 
rior wings, and with the fides of thofe wings ferrugineous toward the bafe. 6. The 
oblong, black Mordella, with the exterior wings yellow all the way down the middle. 
7. The reddifh, brown Mordella, with the anterior legs dentated. 8. The black 
Mordella, with the exterior wings red at their extremities. 9. The brown, opake 
Mordella, with pundated, exterior wings. 10. The ferrugineous, brown Mordella, 
with the thorax depreffed in the anterior part. 11. The Mordella, with the articula¬ 
tions of the antennas lentiform, except the extream one, which is perfedly globofe. 
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