NATURAL HISTORY. _ rg 
ie marked with fmall hollow points very near each other. The wings 
are flexible, foft, and blunt, and the feelers confilt of twelve jointse 
hey creep but flowly, and are found in quarries. 
5. The black fmooth Chry/omela with the bafe of the feelers yellowith. 
it is of a middle fize, and the joints of its wings are neither hollow 
Nor ftreaked, but the black colour of this infe@ has a blueifh caft. 
6. The purplifli black Chry/omela with hollow freaked points, isfound 
upon the birch tree, and feeds wpon its leaves. ‘This infec is of 2 
blackifh: blue inclining to purple, and it is rather of a violet coloury 
but the belly feet and feelers are black, and the head and breaft are’ 
Marked with very fmall hollow points without order. The cafes of 
the wings are flreaked, and the eyes are hardly to be perceived. 
. 7. The purplith black Chry/omela {prinkled with hollow points, is found’ 
in the Spring feafon on the alder tree. It is like the former, only it 
ts larger, and the cafes of the wings are marked with hollow pointsy 
difperfed here and there, but not ftreaked. 
_ 8. The purplith black Chry/omela with the breaft yellow on each fidey 
_ Is found upon the willow tree, and is of the fize and fhape of the for» 
Mer ; as alfo entirely of the fame colour, only the breaft is red on the 
fides, round in the middle, and of a violet-colour ; but a little blacker” 
©n the center. The head and lower belly are black, and there is a 
lack point in the middle of the red that is on the fides of the brealt. 
9- The green fhining Ghry/omela with a fmooth breaft, and the cafes 
of the wings marked with hollow points. This is alfo found upon the: 
Willow, and is of a bright green'colour. It is marked: with hollow 
Points that touch each other, and it is blunt towards the vent. It 
feems to open the cafes of the wings with trouble, and the breaft is 
fmooth behind but a little marked with points, and the feelers and feet- 
are black. 
10. The green fhining. Chry/omela with the breaft hollow before. Tt 
as not the breaft equally hollowed, but only at the top. 
It. The green fhining. Chry/omela with a level breait, is lefs than: 
the former, but rounder. we { 
_ 12. The Chryfomela that is a little teftaceous, is found in the begins 
Ring of the Spring among rotten wood, and is placed by authors 
®mong the largeft kind. ‘he colour of the whole body,  whicli is oval, 
38 cheinut, but the eyes are black, and the feelers and the feet reds 
he under parts of the feet are white, and the cafes of the wings are’ 
Marked with hollow points. “ 
13. The pale green Chry/omela is found upon: willow trees, and’rés _ 
fembles the former, only it is a little fmaller; but what diftinguifhes: 
this from that is the pale colour, and the nine rows of points om each 
Cafes of the wings, placed’ long ways. ‘The eyes are black and- the bot« 
tom of the feet white. . 
14. The Red Chryfomela with a cylindraceous breaft, is found’ upor 
‘© flower deluce. It is.of a middle fize, and its breaft,- cafes of the 
Binss and the top of the head are red; but the feelers, eyes, kneesy. 
elly, breaft plate, and under part of the headare black. The breait is 
uch narrower than the cafes of the wings, and’ is hollow on each fide, 
“he cafes of the wings are marked: with hollow points of a middle: 
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