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168 NATURAL HISTORY. 
This genus contains a number of beautifal infects, 
the colours of which vary according to the difference 
of fex, feafon, &c. which renders it unneceffary to 
defcribe them.— hey frequent flowers ; and their 
jarve are fimilar to thofe of the cerambyces, and are 
to be found in the trunks of decayed willows'and 
other old trees. Although thefe infects are frequently — 
confounded with the cantharides, yet they differ ei- — 
fentially: For the canthares have five articulations 
in the tarfi, or intermediate part between the leg and’ 7 
foot; but the cantharides have five articulations, or 
joints only, on the two firft pair of legs, and four on- 
ly tothe tarfi ofthe laft pair, | 
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GENUS XXI. 
SKIPPER, | 
CHARACTER, 
"Ture horns are briftly ; and they have an elaft- ‘ 
ic fpring, or fpine, which projects from the hinder 
extremity of the breaft. 
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