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wings, black at the extremities, 16. The Chryfomela, with the thorax red, and of 
a cylindric figure, with two black fpots on it, and with the external wings yellow, with 
a black crofs upon them. 17. The Chryfomela, and with a green thorax, and with red 
wings, with a blue crofs on them 18. The oblong, black Chryfomela, with the 
external wings red, and with four black fpots on them.- 19. The oblong, brown 
Chryfomela, with the letter S, in white, on the external wings. 20. The Chryfo¬ 
mela, with the external wings brown, and livid behind. 21. The bluifh-biack Chry¬ 
fomela, with coal-black eyes. 22. The reddifh-brown Chryfomela, with two black 
fpots on the thorax, and feveral on the wings. 23. The blackifh-yellow Chryfomela, 
with the edges of the exterior wings yellow. 24. The blackifh-yellow Chryfomela] 
with a double line of yellow on the exterior wings. 25. The Chryfomela, with a 
black thorax, and with the exterior wings red, with a black crofs on them. 26. The 
thin-winged, tefiaceous Chryfomela. 27. The oblong tefiaceous Chryfomela, with 
pointed exterior wings. 28. The brown Chryfomela, with a black head. 29. The 
Chryfomela, with brown wings, with yellowifh edges. 
C U R C U L I O. 
T H E antennae of the Curculio are affixed to an elongated horny fnout. 
Curculio fubfufcus , elytris fafciis nebulofo-tejlaceis . 
The brownijh Curculio , with the exterior wings 
nebulofo-tejlaceous . 
This is a final! fpecies, and is of a greyifh-black colour: the body is thickeft and 
very gibbous on the back part, toward the tail: the wings, thorax, body, and indeed 
every other part of the Infed, are covered with little excavated fpots : there are two 
obfcurely tefiaceous lines on the thorax, and the apices of the antennas are yellow. 
It is frequent in our woods, and is mofl commonly found on the Serratula, or Saw- 
wort y Lifter call it Scarabsus majufculus fcaber, e leucophaso nigroque varius. 
Curculio niger elytris ?iigris, fafcia duplici alba, baft rubris. 
Ihe Curculio , with black exterior wings, red at the bafe , and with two 
white lines . 
This is about the fize of the common ant, and, tho* a creature of a wholly different 
charader, yet carries a very great external and general refetnblance to that Infed: the 
head is fmall, fhort, black, and immerfed in the thorax : the antennas are fhort, cla- 
vated, and black : the thorax is rough, and of a reddifli colour, but the edge next the head 
is blackifh : the exterior wings are oblong, obtufe, flaitifh, black, and ornamented with 
a number of little protuberances; they are reddifh at the bafe, and have a double 
white line running acrofs them, the one broad, and the other flexuous. 
It is common about our pallures all the fummer; it runs the fwifteft of all the Cur-' 
culio’s. All the writers on Infeds have figured it under the name of a Beetle : it is 
the fixty-ninth of Johnfton j the twenty-ninth of Ray’s hiftory. 
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Curculio nigro-carulefcens . 
The bluijh-black Curculio . 
This is of about the fize of the common flea : the thorax, the head, and the legs 
are of a pale blackifh-blue ; the exterior wings have a much deeper tint of the fame 
kind, and are marked with longitudinal ftrke, formed of excavated fpots. 
It is common in our hedges. 
The other fpecies of the Curculio are, 1. The common brown Curculio, with acu¬ 
minated antennae. 2. The grey Curculio, with a ferrugineous fpot on each of the ex¬ 
terior wings. 3. The black and white Curculio, with a flat hollowed probofcis, of the 
length of the thorax. 4. The brafly-brown Curculio, with the fnout fhorter than the 
thorax, 5. The grey Curculio, with three ftriae on the thorax, and with the fnout 
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