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- tniddle ‘of the breaft and head are of a blackith copper-colour. The 
Ower part is quite black, as well as the feet, and the body is oblong. | 
26 The blackith brafs-coloured Chry/omela with two yellow lines 
On the cafes of the wings, has an oblong body. There is on the latteral 
edge of the breaft in the middle of each cafe of the wing, and on the 
. &xternal edge, a long line of yellow colour; the legs and the internal 
Part of the thighs are alfo of a yellow colour, and the feelers are knotted. . 
27. The Chry/omela with a black breaft, and red cafes of the wings 
Marked with a black fpot. It is of a middle fize, and has a narrow 
Oblong body, with the feelers, head, breaft- and belly black; but the 
Wings are white, and the feelers {maller than in other kinds; the cafes 
of the wings are of a bright red, furnithed with eight {treaks or upwards, 
Confilting of hollow points ; and the bafe on the points are black. 
_ 28. The blueith-green Chry/omela with a red breaft and thighs, makes 
tts neft in the galls of the willowtree. The head and cafes of the wings 
are fhining, and of a blueifh green, marked with hollow points. The 
breaft is fmall, marked. with a reddifh green or reddifh chefnut colour, 
=e itis thick and convex, The feelers and the bottom of the feet are 
ack, oui 
29. The Chry/omela of a yellowith hell colour, with fhort wings, is 
Met with among flowers; and is of the fize of a loufe, with an oblong 
- tmooth body. ‘The feelers are full of knots; but the cafes of the wings 
are furrowed, and fliorter than the two joints of the belly. 
30. The teftaceous oblong Chry/omela with accumulated cafes of the 
Wings, is found on trees, and is the leaft infe&t of this kind. It is of 
& chefnut colour, with the feelers like thread$,;and pointed cafes. of the 
Wings which cover the tail. Fea 
3. The dutky Chryfomela with a blackifh head, is found on the 
Windows in the fpring, and is fomewhat lefs than a flea. The body is 
blong, and the feet are of a paler colour than the body, which is of a 
lack chefaut colour, with a’black head. é ' 
32. The Chryfomela with dufky cafes of the wings, and a yellow 
. dee, is of a middle fize, with a brown head. ‘The breaft is yellowith, 
and the cafes of the wings almoft black; but the feet are yellow, and 
the feelers alternately black and yellow. ‘The wings are brown with. 
lack veins, and the belly yellow marked with a broad black line. 
The Curculio or Weevel, is a fmall infe& not unlike a -bug, which is 
found among corn, wherewith it is nourifhed, and it eats all the in- 
fide, but leaves the bran behind. But there are different kinds of thefe, 
Which feed in a different manner, of which the following are mentioned 
Y Linnaeus. 
1. The brown oblong Weevel with ftrait and fharp cafes of the wings, 
the largelt of thofe that are found in Sweden. ‘The cafes of the wings 
are not fo large as in other infets of the fame kind; but the feelers 
@re big, and have the laft joint of a red colour, and very long. 
2. The dutky Weevel with freaked cafes of the wings, and as hard 
as thells. Linneus comprehends under this fpecies the Dutky Weevel] 
With thelly cafes of the wings, and marked with two ftreaks. ‘The 
Seater Beetle, with rough cafes of the wings, of a greenith afh-colour, _ 
and Variegated with black. The black Norway Weevel, variegated 
With yellowith fignatures. He fays there are feveral forts of the fecond - 
Kind in the fields of “Sweden, It creeps flowly, and flicks fal to any 
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