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gent red, as well as the breaft, only there is a black fpot thereon: the 
eelers are flender, and the cafes of the wings are very foft, filky, and 
flexible, and the wings are thin and brown. This is not very common 
_ with us. 
The Cantharis with black cafes of the wings marked with two red 
tranfverfe lines, is not much bigger than a loufe, and the legs and feel- 
ers are black, but the head and breaft of a greenifh colour; the cafes of 
the wings are of a deep glotiy black, marked with two traniverfe red 
ftreaks, one of which is near the bafe, and the other near the point or 
. extremity : the fides of the body are reddifh. It is not uncommon 
under hedges and pafture grounds. 
Linnaeus takes notice of ten forts of Catharides ; the firft of which he 
calls the Female Cantharis, without wings, and it is ufually found up- 
on juniper trees. He fays he has never feen the male, though he does 
not queftion but there is one, becaufe this fhines in the night time, as 
he thinks with an intent to let the males know where to find her; this 
is the fame as the Glow-worm, and in fome meafure confirms what 
Dale has faid about her. 
2. The Cantharis with teftaceous cafes of the wings, and a red breaft 
without fpots. It is found in the fame places as the former, and is of 
the fame fhape and fize, refembling it in all things except the colour 
of the cafes of the wings, which are of a pale yellow colour; likewife 
the breaft is without {pots, and the eyes are black. 
3. The Cantharis with black cafes of the wings, and a red breaft 
marked with a white fpot. It is called the Tree-beetle by fome, of a 
Dlackifh-brown colour, with flender cafes of the wings. 
4. The Cantharis with red cafes of the wings, and a red breaft mark- 
ed with a black fpot; this is found in different places, and fometimes 
among heaps of iron ore: it is lefs by one half than the former, and 
the body is entirely black; the feelers are very {lender, and the cafes 
of the wings are of a deep red, of faffron colour, flightly Rreaked, but — 
the wings themfelves are brown. 
5. The green copper coloured Cantharis with the cafes of the wings 
red on the outfide: this is found on large nettles, and other plants ; it 
is of a middle fize, and has the head, breaft, feelers, the rings of the 
belly, the lower part of the cafes of the wings, and the inner edges, of 
a greenifh copper-colour; but the hinder part of the cafes of the wings 
near the point, as well as the fides, are red, and the remainder of a 
greenifh copper-colour; but the wings themfelves are browti. 
6. The Cantharis of a greenifh copper colour, with the point of the 
cafes of the wings red, is much {maller than the former, and the wings 
«are of a blackith brown, and the feelers quite black: the breaft, head, 
and cafes of the wings, are of a deep green, inclining toa copper-colour, — 
with red or faffron coloured points: the belly is longer than the cafes, 
and beneath is of a copper colour; but the infide of the wings are red: 
this fort varies with regard to the cafes of the wings, which are fome- 
times blue, and at other times red, 
7. Lhe Cantharis with black cafes of the wings, marked with two 
red ftreaks, is no larger than a loufe: the head and the breaft are green. 
8. The Cantharis with black cafes of the wings with yellow points, 
and a black breaft, is of the fize of the former, but the head and ue 
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