- , NATURAL HISTORY. 
the bafes of the feelers. Some authors call it the Burn-cow, or Burit- 
«ow, with a black body and red legs. 
Linnaus divides them into two {pecies, namely, the greater or ftinking 
Beetles, and the lefler or rapacious Beetles. Of the ftinking Beetles, 
there are the black flinking Beetle with the cafes of the wings convexly 
freaked : the black flinking Beetle with the cafes of the wings green- 
ith, and convexly fpeckled and ftreaked: the black ftinking Beetle 
with brafly wings, convexly fpeckled and ftreaked: the black ftink- 
ing Beetle with fixteen ftreaks on the cafes of the wings: the green 
flinking Beetle with bluntly ftreaked cafes of the wings, and the head 
and legs of an iron grey colour: the black Rtinking Bettle with green 
shallow furrowed wings, and black feelers and legs. oe 
_ The Mordella is an infe@ of the Beetle kind, with feelers like threads, 
and have generally legs that ferve them for leaping. It is called by 
the Gérman Waflerwante; but we have no £agli/b name for it: the 
oblong Black Mordella, with a flender pointed tail, is not above a fixth 
part of an inch in length, and the breadth not half fo much: the 
colour is black, and it is fmooth and a little glofly on moft part of the 
furface; the head is {mall and bent, and the cafes of the wings 
_ have no flreaks; the breaft is fmooth, and very convex, and the feel- 
ers are very flender, truncated, and jointed: the body grows gradu- 
ally fmaller towards the tail, where it terminates in a fharp thorn or 
prickle, which is black, and reaches longer than the extremity of the 
wings: the legs are flender and long, by which means it leaps very 
nimbly, t 
The roundith opake black Mordella is fhorter and thicker than the 
former, being nearly of a roundifh fhape: the head is fmall, and 
the breaft raifed, being of a dufky deep black, but not glofly: the 
cafes of the wings are of the fame colour, and fomewhat fhorter than 
the body, but the legs are flender and long, which enable it to leap 
very brifkly. It is common in gardens. 
The fhining blue oval-bodied Mordella, called by Ray the {mall 
leaping Capricorn Beetle, is not much larger than a flea, and the body 
js fhort, being nearly of an oval form: the kreaft and back are both 
-wery convex and fmooth, and of a very deep, beautiful, glofly blue 
colour: the legs are long, the thighs thick, robuft, and whitifh, and 
the lower part of the legs are of an iron-grey colour. It hops very 
nimbly, and is common among cabbages, while they are young. 
The roundifh black Mordella with a brafly tinéture, is much lefs than 
a flea, and is all over of a very deep glofly black, with a fine brafly 
yellowifh caft; the belly and legs are of the fame fine black, but 
without the yellow: the cafes of the wings are marked with ftreaks, 
that confilt of five fmall hollow fpots. It may be feen in the gardens 
early in the fpring. 
Lianeus has only three kinds, to which he gives no very diftin& 
ynarks ; however there are other {pecies, as the yellow Mordella; the 
roundith moufe-coloured Mordella ; the roundifh black opake and dotted 
‘Mordella; the roundifh black glofly Mordella with yellow feelers and 
legs: the oblong black Mordella with an iron-grey fpot on each cafe 
of the wings, whofe fides are of the fame colour towards the bafe: the 
oblong black Mordella with the cafes of their wings yellow down their 
middle; the reddifh brown Mordella with the fore-legs cs e 
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