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breaft are quite black: the end of the cafes of the wings is yellow, or 
of the colour of fulphur, and the fides of the belly are yellow. 
g. The brown Cantharis with the cafes of the wings yellow at the 
Point, and ared breaft. It is of the fize of a loufe, and the breatt is of 
a ruity red, with a black fpot; the cafes of the wings are brown, and 
do not reach half way on the belly; but their points are yellow: the 
ae are black, the legs pale, and the fegment on the belly yellow on 
the edges. ", gage 
io oPhe black Cantharis with livid cafes of the wings, is the leaft of 
thefe kind of flies, and is found upon plants. ; 
Moufet informs us that the Cantharides of the fhops, have a pretty 
large, oblong, thick body, not much unlike a grain of wheat, and that 
. there are tranfverie gold-coloured lines on the cafes of the wings; but 
thefe lines are not common to all, for in fome they are of a fhining 
freen, and in others of a murrey“or ruddy colour; but they have all a 
a fort of fplendor, and are agreeable to look upon: that they live upon 
‘ pulfe and corn, particularly wheat, in which laft cafe, he afirmis their 
Virtues are moft confiderable: they fmell like tar, and tafte like ce- 
dar-wood. As for their ufe in medicine, it is too well known to infilt 
Upon it in this place. » 
_ The Stinking Beetle, called by fome the Tenerio, from its hating the 
ight, is a pretty large infeét, which is all over of a coal black: the 
ody is of fuch a form, that any one would conchide it was a winged 
infea, and that it had cafes for wings; and yet Mou/et affures us, that 
Upon examination he could not find any, though by fome it is called 
the black Tenebrio with accumulated wings: the legs and thighs are 
ender, and the feelers are pretty long, being compofed of joints, 
Which are longifh, except the laft, that is round : the breaft is marked 
With fmall fpecks, and has a rim. What fome take for the cafes of 
the wings, are wrinkled: it walks very flowly, and keeps in the deep 
holes of dunghills in the day time, but comes out in the night: it has 
filthy fmell, which is very naufeous in places where they abound: 
It is a folitary animal, for even fo much as two are feldom or never 
feen together. 
The black Tenebrio with the cafes of the wings rounded behind, is a 
Pretty large infeét, and has a back a little prominent, with a {mall 
head, and long legs. It is all over of fine deep black, with a purplith 
Call, and is frequent about the hot-beds in gardens, 
The black Tenebrio with prominent jaws, is not much bigger than 4 
common fly, and the colour is of a deep dull black: the legs are long, 
and the feelers flender, and pretty long: it may be found on the half-rot- 
ten branches of trees. Linnaus tells us, that this kind of infec has feelers 
ike {mall threads, and that the upper part of the body, which appear 
. like cafes of the wings, are united together ; for they have no wings at 
all; though it muft be obferved, that he mentions no more than the 
Stinking Beetle. ; 
The Gil-Beeile, called by Moufet and Linneus the Profcarabeus, has a 
foft body, of a dufky-blue colour, with a fhining blackifh caf. On 
the thoulders there are two wings, or rather the rudiments of wings, 
Which it makes ufe of much like Oftriches, to help their running, and 
Rot for flying: the circles which furround their backs and bellies in the 
Young, are greenith, buc in the adult more blue; upon the flighteft 
motion 
