FC 255 yx 
XXVII. Extracts from the Minute Book of the Linnean Society. 
November 4, R. DRYANDER communicated to the 
er © à" Side Society, from Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. a 
fpecimen of an incomplete Bupreftis; fent to Sir Jofeph 
from the Committee of Warehoufes of the Eaft India 
Company, on account of the damage it had done to a bale 
of muflins. It was found in its prefent ftate on opening 
a bale of piece goods received from Bengal, and appeared 
to have eaten through fifteen pieces of muflin, of eight or 
ten folds in each piece, making itfelf a paffage of about its 
own fize. M 
—'Fhis Bupreíüs, in fize, fhape, impreffed /unule of the 
thorax, fhield, and canaliculated abdomen, exactly refembles 
the Bupreftis canaliculata Fabr. Mant. p. 181, n. 58, but 
differs in colour. The B. canaliculata wants the two golden 
{pots on the thorax, which this has, like thofe of B. vittata. 
The abdomen of B. canaliculata is bright purple on the upper 
fide; in this it 1s of a fhining green, appearing in certain 
lights of a dark blue. The under fide of the fame part 
is in B. cazaliculata of a dull copper colour, in this of a bright 
green. ; 
The B. canaliculata is faid to come from Africa æquinoëtialis 
(Sierra 
