“ wings in both is adorned with a multitude of {mall hollow dots, with 
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with a grey hairy breaft, and two fmooth fhort lines thereon:, the 
fhelly Capricorn Beetle, with a fmooth breaft: the brown Capricorn 
Beetle, with {pots impreffed on the breaft: the grey Capricorn, Beetle 
with the cafes of the wings {potted with black: the black Capricorn 
Beetle, with a longitudinal dentated yellow line and yellow {pots on 
the cafes of the wings: the thining violet colouréd Capricorn Beetle, 
with black feelers and clavated thighs. ; 
Linnaus has only four forts in his Syfema Nature, which are mention- 
ed among thofe above. ; 
The Leptura is a fort of a Beetle with feelers like briftles, and the 
cafes of the wings truncated at the points; as alfo a round breaft: the 
‘Tree-Beetle, or greater violet-red Leptura,. is of the large kind, with 
an oblong-fhaped body, fmalleft behind: the legs, feelers, and all 
the other parts, except the cafes of the wings, are black, though in 
fome lights it has a whitith caft; the cafes of the wings of the fe- 
male are of a deep red; but thofe of the males are not fo deep, and 
are black or grey on the edges. All the furface of the cafes of the 
a few fhort fine hairs: the head and breaft are fometimes yellowith. 
It may be often met. with in the woods, and Ray calls it a Unicorn 
Beetle, with the head, fhoulders and feelers black; but of a blackith 
yellow at the extremities. _ : 
The middle-fized Beetle, with a black oblong narrow belly, and va- 
riegated with yellow lines and fpots. It is of an oblong narrow fhape, 
the general colour is of a blackifh brown; only the upper edge of the 
brealt is yellow, and there is a yellow fpot where the cales of the wings _ 
join. Likewile there are fome undulated yellow lines running tranf- 
vertely thereon; and they are truncated at the point, and are a little 
hairy, and the feelers and legs are of a reddifh brown. It is not un- | 
common among the hedges im orchards and gardens. . 
The yellow gold-coloured Leptura, with black feelers, and dentated 
hinder legs: the body is oblong, and the head fmall: the colour 
refembles that of copper, with a mixture of fine ftrong gilded yellow 
’ variegations ; the head, breall, and cafes of the wings, as well as the 
legs, are all fpeckled with extremely minute, and almoft contiguous 
hollow dots, which are irregularly difperfed over the breaft, head, and 
Jegs; but on the wings they are pretty regular, and placed in ten rows, 
running lengthways, forming fo may lines: the eyes are black, and 
the feelers brown. . 
Lennaus has fifteen infeéts of this kind, of which the fir is, The 
- greenith-yellow Lepiura, with yellow feelers, variegated with green. 
* It is the largeft of the kind, and in the Up/al tranfa@ions is named the 
greateft black Leptura, greenifh underneath. 
2. The black Lepiura, with the breaft and cafes of the wings red; it 
is pretty large; and the legs are yellow. ay 
_ 3. The black Leptura with blackifh cafes of the wings, variegated 
with a livid colour. tis found in Sweden as well as the former. 
4. The black Leptura with reddith and greenith cafes of the wings, is 
called by Kay the Cerambix, with the head and fhouldets and feelers 
black, the cafes of the wings yellow and black at the extremity, and in 
ihe Up/al tranfactions, the Leptura with teltaceons cafes of the wings ; 
but this is the male, and the female is termed the Leptura with red 
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