“e NATURAL HISTORY. 
towards its hinder part: the eyes are black, and there is a black fpot' 
near the feelers, which are five times as long as the body: they aré 
grey, and contift of ten joints, which are fhorter the nearer they are to 
the head ; but the wings are black ftreaked with brown. The female 
has an elongation at the vent, which renders the body one third of the 
length of the feelers. It is found among old wood, but is not very 
common with us. 
The black Capricorn Beetle with a hairy grey breaft, has an oblong 
and fomewhat deprefled body, of a deep black colour, with a little mix- 
ture of grey. It is covered with many {hort hairs with prominent tu- 
bercles between them ;. but all the breaft is hairy and black, though the 
hairs are white, which give it a greyifh appearance ; only on its hinder 
part there are two fmooth prominent fpots: the feelers are flender 
and black, and about half the length of the body, and there is an un- 
dulated line on the cafe of the wings, but fo faint, that it is fearcely 
vifible. It is found among timber, but it is not very common with us. 
Linnaus has eighteen forts of thefe Beetles, the firft of which is thé — 
green and blue Capricorn Beetle, with feelers nearly of the length of 
the body: this has a fine agreeable fmell, and is found upon willow 
trees. It is the largeft fort that is feen in Sweden, and is the fame with © 
one already mentioned. 
2. The cloudy Capricorn Beetlé with feelers longer‘than the body, — 
and the breaft marked with four yellow fpots : this isthe fame as the — 
Ruffian Beetle, and’ is found on the trunks of trees that are ftript of | 
their bark with which the peafants make their huts. 
3. The black Capricorn Beetle-with’a flattith breaft, that has three 
teeth on the margin on each fide, and the cafes of the wings as black 
as pitch: this is the fame as the great Cerambix of Ray, with large 
articulated horns: bending back;. it has a very large flattifh body, 
longer than the feelers, and of the fhape of a common Beetle: this’ 
is a kind of ftag Beetle... ae 
4. The red Capricorn Beetle with the cafes of the wings marked with’ 
three longitudinal black fpots : this is the largeft’ kind of Beetle that 
is found in Europe, and has the belly, feet, mouth and forehead, of a 
dark red; the belly is covered with hair. 
5: The black Stag-bectle with fpeckled cafes of the wings, and pale 
{pots fprinkled thereon, with feelers longer than the body, and a prickly — 
breaft: it is found in forefts, and is of the largeft kind. | 
6. The fmall Capricorn Beetle of an afh-colour, with black cafes of 
the wings, and feelers half as long again as the body :. the head is 
black, and itis found in Gothland.. : 
7. The afh-coloured Capricorn Beerle with cafes of the wings, -part 
of which feem to be bitten off, marked with black: points, with a white 
flreak ; as alfo with feelers half as long again as the body : ‘this is of 
the length of a common fly, but more ilender; and it is often feen in 
houfes in the country. 
8. The Capricorn Beetle, of a cloudy black colour, with feelers fhorter 
by half than the body, and a prickly breaft. i 
g. The ath-coloured Capricorn Beetle with ‘the cafes of the wings 
marked with two yellow ftreaks, and feelers by one half fhorter that 
the body, with a prickly breaft. Its like the former, only the eer j 
