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LEPTUR A: 
fcurely ftriate, punctured ; body beneath and legs cine¬ 
reous. Inhabits Germany. 
24. Leptura mucronata : hind-thighs unarmed ; body 
above livid ; beneath, head, and antennae, black ; thorax 
with two divergent lines ; (hells fpinous at the end. 
Mouth yellow ; lines oft the thorax black ; fhelis ftriate, 
punctured, the punctures black ; feu tel black ; legs livid, 
the joints black. Inhabits Germany. 
25. Leptura cinerea: hind-thighs unarmed ; body cine¬ 
reous with coppery fpecks. Inhabits Pomerania. 
26. Leptura craflipes: hind-thighs unarmed ; body 
green bronzed, beneath cinereous bronzed; fhelis ftriate, 
punctured with tranfverfe fmall lines; mouth, antennae, 
and legs, rufous. Inhabits Europe. 
27. Leptura vulgaris : hind-thighs unarmed ; body fiive- 
ry-green ; (hells ftriate, punctured, with crenate wrinkles, 
and a broad common purple-green fillet; head, abdomen, 
and legs, filvery-afh. Inhabits Europe. 
II. Lip bifid. 28. Leptura unipunftata ; black ; fir el 1 s 
rufous with a black dot in the middle. Inhabits Drefden. 
29. Leptura haftata : black ; (hells red, the tip and fu¬ 
ture in the middle black. Segments of the abdomen with 
filvery down at the edge. Inhabits Southern Europe. 
30. Leptura bipunclata : black, villous ; (hells livid 
with a black dot in the middle, future and tip. Shells 
rounded at the tip. Inhabits Siberia. 
31. Leptura tomentofa: thorax villous golden; (hells 
teftaceous, tipt with black. Head and antennae black ; 
fhelis frnooth, (lightly notched at the tip ; abdomen co¬ 
vered with filvery down; tail emarginate; legs black. 
Inhabits Franck. 
32. Leptura melanura : black, (hells reddiHi or livid, 
the future and tip black. Inhabits Europe, on flowers. 
33. Leptura futuralis: black; (hells and legs livid; 
future and tip of the (hells black. Antennas black, the 
firftjoint livid at the tip; head and thorax black villous; 
body clothed with lilvery down. Inhabits Keil. 
34. Leptura livida : black ; (hells teftaceous immacu¬ 
late ; legs black. Shells rounded at the tip, and hardly 
emarginate. Inhabits Germany. 
35. Leptura ftrigilata : black ; (hells teftaceous with a 
blackifh fillet. Inhabits Sweden; fmall; (hells (lightly 
emarginate. 
36. Leptura emarginata: black; (hells purple, the tip 
emarginate black. Abdomen two-toothed at the end, the 
fegrnents (hining filvery at the bafe. Inhabits Cayenne. 
37. Leptura (anguinolenta : black ; (hells fanguineous. 
Male; (hells teftaceous tipt with black. Varies in having 
the (hells edged with black. Inhabits Europe. 
38. Leptura meridiana, the noon wood-beetle : thorax 
fubfpinous ; (hells faftigate; breaft (hining. This is one 
of the larger European fpecies, often meafuring an inch 
in length, and is a very common infeiSt during the de¬ 
cline of fummer in fields and woods, generally appearing 
jn the hotted parts of the day. It is of a dull brown co¬ 
lour above, fometimes yellowifti-chefnut ; and beneath is 
of a brilliant tawny yellow, (hining with the luftre of fa- 
tin. Lip bifid. It has very much the general appear¬ 
ance of a Cerambyx ; and might perhaps with equal pro¬ 
priety be referred to either genus. It is (hown on the 
preceding Plate, at fig. 6. 
39. Leptura villa: ferruginous; antenna;, (hells, and 
breaft, brown. Antennae dark brown, the fil'd joint ru¬ 
fous; head rufous ; eyes black ; hind angles of the tho¬ 
rax acute. Inhabits England. 
40. Leptura rubra : black ; thorax, (hells, and (hanks, 
purple-red. Inhabits Europe. 
41. Leptura telfacea: black; (hells teftaceous; (hanks 
rufous; thorax rounded behind. This is fuppofed to be 
only the male of the laft. Inhabits Europe. 
42. Leptura pubefeens : black, with cinereous down ; 
rib of the wings teftaceous at the bafe. Inhabits Sweden ; 
relembles L. telfacea. 
43. Leptura virens: filky-greenifti ; antennae varied 
with brown and green. Inhabits Europe. 
44. Leptura fmaragdula : (ilky-greeni(h ; antennae and 
legs black. Inhabits Sweden ; half the fize of the pre¬ 
ceding. 
45. Leptura atra; body entirely deep black. Abdo¬ 
men with white iilky down ; kgs fometimes teftaceous. 
Inhabits Europe. 
46. Leptura humeralls: black ; (houlders and abdomen 
ferruginous. Inhabits Germany. 
47. Leptura exclamationis : black ; (hells with a yellow 
line down the middle, and a dot at the bafe. Shells trun¬ 
cate ; abdomen covered with filvery down. Inhabits 
Sweden ; fmall. 
48. Leptura futurata : cinereous ; (hells teftaceous, with 
a black future. Aofennas teftaceous, tipt with black ; head, 
thorax, and abdomen, with cinereous down ; (hells frnooth ; 
legs rufous, the joints black. Inhabits Germany. 
49. Leptura fcntellata : black; fcutel white". Shells 
emarginate ; abdomen filky-white. Inhabits Italy. 
50. Leptura lurida : ferruginous; (hells teftaceous. 
Inhabits the deferts of Hircania. 
51. Leptura femorata : black; thighs rufous at the bafe. 
Fore-ftianks rufous. Inhabits-Saxony. 
52. Leptura ruficornis: body, antennas, and legs, ru¬ 
fous. Body covered with yellowifti down. Inhabits Italy. 
53. Leptura marginata : black; edge of the (hells and 
hind-fhanks rufous. Body dulky. Inhabits Norway. 
54. Leptura nigra: (hells tapering; body black", po- 
liftied; abdomen red. Inhabits Europe. 
55. Leptura prasufta : body covered with golden pubel- 
cence; head and tip of the (hells black. Firft joint of 
the antennas ferruginous ; legs red. Inhabits Europe. 
56. Leptura quadri-guttata : brown ; (hells black, with 
two ferruginous dots at the bafe. Thorax with cinereous 
down ; thighs ferruginous at the bafe. Inhabits Saxony. 
57. Leptura ro ft rata: dull brafiy ; legs yellow. An¬ 
tennas yellowifti at the bafe, thorax and (hells frnooth. 
Inhabits Africa, on the Ammi majus. 
58. Leptura luteicornis : yellow; thorax with two black 
lines ; (hells with four black bands. Head and antennae 
yellow ; thorax tapering before; legs yellow; hind thighs 
with a black ring. Inhabits Carolina. 
59. Leptura quadri-macyilata : black; fnells teftaceous 
with a black ring. Inhabits Germany. 
60. Leptura quadrhpuftulata : black ; (hells with two 
remote ferruginous fpots. Abdomen with golden down. 
Inhabits Sweden. 
61. Leptura o&o-rnaculata : black; (hells livid with 
four black (pots. Inhabits Europe. 
62. Leptura interrogationis : black; (hells yellow, with 
a longitudinal curved black line, and four marginal fpots. 
Spots one to three, fometimes connected with the line. 
Inhabits Sweden. 
63. Leptura marginella : blackifli ; future of the (hells, 
two marginal fpots, and tip, yellow. Shells with a black 
dot at the tip. Inhabits Italy. 
64. Leptura fex-maculata : black; (hells teftaceous with 
three indented black bands, the anterior one a little in¬ 
terrupted. Inhabits Europe. 
65. Leptura (qltem-punftata : black; thorax teftaceous, 
with a black dot; (hells teftaceous, with feven black dots. 
Head with a large frontal teftaceous fpot; abdomen tefta¬ 
ceous ; legs black. Inhabits Hungary ; fmall, (lender. 
66. Leptura duodecima-maculata: black; (hells yel¬ 
low, with fix black fpots. Inhabits Siberia ; larger than 
L. fex-macuiata. 
67. Leptura attenuata : (hells tapering, yellow, with 
four black bands; legs teftaceous. Abdomen rufous tipt 
with black, fometimes wholly black. Inhabits Europe. 
6S. Leptura calcarata: black; fhelis tapering, yellow, 
with four black bands, the firft punctured, fecond inter¬ 
rupted ; hind-lhanks two-toothed. Antennae black, the 
joints yellow at the bafe; thorax fubfpinous. Inhabits 
Germany. 
69. Leptura fubfpinofa t black; (hells teftaceous, with 
four black bands, the firft punctured ; antennae and legs 
1 yellow. 
