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34 NATURAL HISTORY. z 
_ The Cicindela with a green breaft, with the cafes of the wings of af 
iron grey, but behind of a blueifh black: the feelers are black, the 
body and the breaft of a fhining blue. 
The Burn-cow, cr Burf}-cow, called in Latin Bupreffis, is an infect 
with feelers like threads or briftles, and the head half bid_ within their 
breaft, and of a roundifh fhape: the yellowith green Burn-cow with- 
out fpots, is placed by fome among the Cantharides, only it has @ 
gnore oblong body: the cafes of the wings are of a greenifh yellow, oF 
’ rather of a gold colour ; the legs are long and thickifh; the eyes glo- 
bous and prominent; and from the forehead near the eyes, there are 
two oblong horns or feelers, which are articulated: the head is fmall, 
the mouth wide, hard, flrong, and forked; being armed with teeth, 
with which it bites very hard: the belly is not round, but longith. 
It will fight with Beetles and efts; wounding them in the belly. It is 
about half an inch long, and feeds upon mots, heath, efts, worms, and 
other infeéts, which it vanquithes in fight. Nor will it touch any that 
are killed by other means. Be/onius defcribes it thus; it is a winged 
flying infea&, having a mott filthy fmell, and is like a Cantharis, but 
larger, and is of a yellowifh colour, and fo very venomous, that horn- 
ed cattle which feed in paftures where they are, are often killed there- 
with; this however differs from the former in the colour. 
There is another Burn-cow, with a fhorter body and a broader belly; 
as alfo a fharper tail, and a {mall head, with prominent eyes, and a 
wide forked mouth: the cafes of the wings are ftreacked lengthways, 
and the colour is as green as grafs, with a mixture of fhining gold. It 
has eight legs, which are long in proportion to the body ; but more 
flender than in the former {pecies, and of a blackifh colour, the feelers 
are more fmall and flender, and it is as nimble as the firft, but has 2 
a much more filthy fmel!. It ves upon flies and palmer- worms: thefe 
are venomous to cattle like the former ; and fome affirm if one of them 
-be fwallowed it will poifon a man. 
In Germany there-are alfo two other forts, the one of a greenith gold- 
colour, and the other of a yellow black: the firft is like the former 
sabove defcribed, but is a little biger, and the cafes of the wings are 
ftreaked with lines of a deep gold-colour, fhaded with a little green 
and between the lines hollowith tubercles arife, which look as if they 
were engraved therein. It is very nimble, and in that is like the 
other kinds: the yellowifh-black Burn-cow has the fame qualities as 
the former, only it is of a different colour, is a little bigger, and has’ 
four feelers. ; : : 
The brownifh braffy Burn-cow, is a very fmall fpecies, though the 
eyes are pretty large and prominent: the feelers are fhort, and the 
breaft is fhort, and broad, but hollowed, and has a very {mall rim 
the cafes of the wings are very bright and glofly, and finely ftreaked. 
with very minute elegant fpecks: the legs are flender and black, as’ 
well as the under part of the body, and the fnout is prominent. It is 
¢ommon among the reeds near rivers, 
The brafly and clouded Burn-Cow with clavated feclers, is alfo a 
fmall {pecies, being hardly fo big as a flea: the belly and lowe 
part of the body are black; but the upper is all over of a braffy yel- 
low, with a mixture of brown, and it has a brown {pot on the back, 
which touches both the cafes of the wings, which are finely. realise : 
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