The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &c together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . C 81 ] PLATE LXVir. MELOE VARIEGATUS. S C A R C E M E L O GENERIC CHJRJCTER. Antennse globular, the laft globule oval. Thorax roundifli. Shellsloft. Head gibbous, and bent downv/ards. SPECIFIC CHJRJCTER. Head and thorax dull green, margined with red. She
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &c together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . C 81 ] PLATE LXVir. MELOE VARIEGATUS. S C A R C E M E L O GENERIC CHJRJCTER. Antennse globular, the laft globule oval. Thorax roundifli. Shellsloft. Head gibbous, and bent downv/ards. SPECIFIC CHJRJCTER. Head and thorax dull green, margined with red. Shells fliort, dullgreen fhagreened. Body large; above variegated with red, green>and copper colour: beneath purple. Legs rediJilh purple. In form and fize this fpecies is not unlike the common Meloe *;but is far lupsrior to that IiifetSL, for the beauty of its colours: whenthe creature is alive the upper part of the body partakes of the moflrvivid colours, but thofe colours become more cbfcure after the Infe Itdies;—this difference of the appearance, between the living and d -dfpecimen of the fame fpecies, is not peculiar to this Infedl: only, butis commonly obfervtd of mo ft other kinds. The body is large inproportion to the other parts, but atter death it is (o contraded, ofdiftorted from its natural fhape, as to afl
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