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appear absolutely useless. The other legs are rather small than 

 otherwise. 



The colour of this Beetle is singularly beautiful. In tlie first 

 place the elytra are rich shining green, with the exception of a 

 fiery copper-red stripe in the middle, which is wide at the base 

 and narrows gradually to the tip. The whole surface is thickly 

 granulated. A decided golden gloss tinges both the green and 

 the red, the golden gloss shifting with every change of light. 

 The head and thorax are also green, and so are the legs, the 

 surface of which is granulated like that of the elytra, but not so 

 deeply. 



Kio. 121. — Sagra Buquctii. 

 (Green and coppery red.) 



This is an exceedingly variable insect, especially in point of 

 size, some not being one-fourth as large as that which has been 

 figured. 



The Sagrides have a very wide geographical range, being found 

 in Australasia, Java, and India. Their colours are exceedingly 

 various, though green of some kind is generally the predominant 

 hue. The present species, for example, is mostly green, and 

 Sagra chrysochlora is entirely golden-green. Sagra cmjvjrea, 

 however, is almost entirely blue ; and Sagra nigrita, a small 

 Cingalese species, is dull black. 



Now come a vast number of Beetles, with outlines more or 

 less circular. For this reason they have been named Cyclica, 

 this being a Greek word signifying " a circle." None of them 

 are of any great size, the largest barely reaching an inch in 

 length, and on an average being seldom more than one-third of 



