Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . yvirtues, in which they excel the Blattse Bizantine. For take offhis shell or mail, which is thin between its head (called p«[i<iv<t)and its neck, what doth the belly contain but the ornament todye withall, and to delight the eyes with their colour ? And beit so that princes and great men will buy it though never sodear, and by the greatness of the price make it only fit for kingsto wear; yet notwithstanding when you have heard the virtuesof these Blattee, otherwise so contemptible
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . yvirtues, in which they excel the Blattse Bizantine. For take offhis shell or mail, which is thin between its head (called p«[i<iv<t)and its neck, what doth the belly contain but the ornament todye withall, and to delight the eyes with their colour ? And beit so that princes and great men will buy it though never sodear, and by the greatness of the price make it only fit for kingsto wear; yet notwithstanding when you have heard the virtuesof these Blattee, otherwise so contemptible, you will say they arefar more esteemed than purple. The same writer then proceeds to affirm that the Blaps is acertain eure for ear-ache if beaten up with old wine, honey,pomegranate-rind, unguentum Syriacum, apple-juice, tar, andonion. This delightful mixture is to be boiled in a pipkin, andwhen cold to be poured into the ear. The reader will remember that many of the dark-bodiedllcteromera are very dull and slow in their movements. Inallusion to this disposition the name of Moluridce, or sluggish,. In;. S4 —Moluris Rowleyiana.(Black.) is given to the vast family of Beetles. The particular specieswhich has been chosen as the representative is MolurisRowleyiana. Moluris is one of the many genera that havebeen made out of Pimelia, which may almost be called a genusof all work, or a refuge tor destitute Heteromera, so large did it THE MOLURIS. 181 become by the additions which were perpetually being madeto it. The present insect is one of the largest of its kind, the speci-men from which it was drawn being an inch and three-quartersin length. The colour of this species is black. The head andthorax are finely granulated, and if examined with a magnifierthe whole surface is seen to have a peculiar gloss, caused by theedges of the granulations being highly polished, while the in-terior of the cells is dull and rough. The elytra have several curved ridges upon their surface, not
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