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Title: The natural history of beetles : illustrated by thirty-two plates, numerous wood-cuts, with memoir and portrait of Ray
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Duncan, James, 1804-1861 Jardine, William, Sir, 1800-1874 Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, engraver
Subjects: Ray, John, 1627-1705 Beetles
Publisher: Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars London : Henry G. Bohn
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esin the immediate neighbourhood of each other, thestronger devours the weaker, that there may be nointerference with his own pursuits. When aboutto change their skins or be converted into nymphs,they retire to the bottom of their holes, having pre-viously sealed up the entrance. The perfect insects are found in the spring andsummer months, usually in sandy fields exposed tothe sun. They seem rather partial to heaths, andcertain kinds are found only in the vicinity of thesea. In its present restricted form the genus containsupwards of 200 species, only six or seven of whichoccur in Britain. The most common throughoutthe northern parts of Europe is C. campestris, oneof the most beautiful of our indigenous insects. Itis of a fine green colour, glossed with coppery-red,and having five yellowish spots on the margin ofeach elytron, and another towards the middle. Itis distributed over the whole island, but is ratherlocal in Scotland. A beautiful species representing this genus is the PLATE
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ttata 3. ProcerusTauricus.isparim COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS. 117 CICINDELA AURULENTA PLATE I. Fio. 1. Fabricius, Syst. Elenth. p. 239, No. 38—Dcjean, Spec. Ge-tter, vol. i. p. 46. The ordinary length of this insect is about sevenlines and a half. The upper lip, which projects verylittle, is yellow, somewhat dusky at the base andsides. The mandibles are deep black, and markedwith a yellowish spot at the base. The palpi andfour lowest joints of the antennas are greenishbronze, occasionally changing into blue; the re-maining joints of the latter are dull black. Thehead is striated between the eyes, that is, markedwith slightly impressed longitudinal lines, and of afine green colour variegated with blue. The thoraxis narrow, greenish blue, with two large patches ofgolden green. The elytra are duller than the otherparts of the body, the colour bluish green, glossedwith golden yellow at the base and margins, andeach marked with four spots of yellowish white, ofwhich that next the shoulder is v

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