PL A‘DE: LY. 
FIG. 1 
PYROCHROA COCCINEA#, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. — 
Beneath, Legs and Antenna black. Head, Thorax and Shells 
_ bright red, inclining to brown, 
Senet the cA NOT UR RGR MER DSIEIE A ce ne 
The above Infect which Fabricius has, after that celebrated French 
Naturalift Geoffroy, made a new genus, under the title Pyrachroa *, 
has in general been confidered by the Collectors of Infeéts as the Cane 
tharis Sanguinolente of Linnzus; but this cannot be the cafe, as the 
defcriptions by no means correfponds; nor is it the Lampyris Coccinea 
of that author, as quoted by Fabricius; we are therefore inclined to 
think, that notwithftanding it is fo plenty with us, it was unknown to 
the Swedifh Naturalift at the time he wrote ; efpecially as the {pecimen 
Was not contained in his cabinet. 
It is very common in England, in Jnly. 
* Geoff. Inf. Ie 388, Te tab, 6. Sig 4e 
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