o.. ’ NATURAL HisToRY. 
1g. The Copper coloured Chry/omela is very common ori willdwsj 
and is of a middle fize. It is of the colour of red copper that hag 
been polifhed. 
19. The’ blackifh blue Chry/fomela with ted cafes of the wings, is 
found on the poplar tree, in the begining of fpring, whofe leaves it 
feeds upon. It is one of thé largeft fort, and its red wings are marked — . 
with {mall points, and the extremity of each cafe of the wings has ‘a 
black fpot, and the breaft is fmooth and of a green and black colour; 
as well as the corfet, belly, and feet ; but the feelers are black. The 
cafes of the wings of this kind are not plates or leaves, but feem to be 
made up of eleven joints, of which the laft is largeft. It throws out 
an oily fluid when touched, and ftinks fo abominably, that few are 
able to bear it. : 
17. The Chryfomela with a red cylindraceous breaft, and red cafes 
for the wings, is found on the branches of afparagus, and devours 
the ftalks. It is but fmall, and has a head of a blackifh blue, with 
black feelers, and the breaft narrow and cylindric, marked behind 
with two black points. ‘The cafes of the wings are oblong, yellow, 
and of a fallow colour on the external edge; there is alfo a blue {pot 
like a crofs on the cafes of the wings. * 
18. The Chry/omela with a green breaft, and red cafes of the wings, 
marked with a blue crofs. For fhape it is much like that of the poplar 
tree, and the colour of the head and breaft is that of gréet coppers 
with black feelers, and the feet are generally black. ‘The head, breaft, 
and cafes of the wings, are of a fingular beauty, and painted with 
copper-coloured ftreaks, a little inclining to blue. 
1g. The oblong black Chry/omela with red cafes of the wings marked 
with four black fpots, is very largeft of this kind, and is of a rounder 
fhape. There are two large {pots on each cafe of the wings, the firft 
of which is oval, but the other more fhiort. The feelers are almott 
dentated, and the breaft is fhort. : 
20. The red Chryfomela with each cafes of the wings marked with. 
five black fpots. It is found upon willow trees, and is one of the 
Yargeft of this kind, having a black head with a red breaft, black in the 
middle, and red cafes of the wings, upon each of which there are five’ 
large black fpots of an unequal fize. The belly and the under part 
of the feet are black. 
21, Thelong dufky Chry/omela with the letter S marked on the cafes 
ef the wings. The breaft is grey with white hair, and the cafes of the 
wings are of a greyith-brown, with a white {pot of the fize of a grain 
of caraway-feed, of the fhape as above. : : 
22. The Chry/omela with dufky wings that are livid on the back part, 
is no larger than a flea, and the body is.black, and the breaft brown: 
23. The livid Chryfomela with black eyes, is fmall, and of a pale 
livid colour. : 
24. The Chryfomela that is reddifh-on the upper part, with two black 
{pots on the breaft, and feveral on the cafes of the wings. It is found 
on the poplar tree, and is of a middle fize, with a black head. 
25. The Chry/omela that is of a blackith brafs colour, with the edges 
ef the cafes of the wings yellow. It is of a middle fize, and has the — 
external edge of the cafes of the wings and the breaft yellow ; but-the 
middle — 
