BUPRESTIS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Body firm; head vertically inserted in the 

 thorax to the eyes ; antennae short, filiform, ser- 

 rated ; palpi very short, filiform, or hut slightly 

 enlarged towards the tip; mandihles entire at 

 tip ; maxillae bifid at the extremity ; thorax w^ith 

 its posterior edge applied to the base of the 

 elytra, the posterior angles not elongated; ante- 

 rior margin of the pectus advanced tov^^ards the 

 mouth, its opposite extremity elongated in the 

 form of a horn, vs^hich is received into a sinus of 

 the postpectus, and is not concealed in it; feet 

 short, tarsi dilated, somewhat triangular, the 

 penultimate one bilobated. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



A large and very natural assemblage of insects, 

 remaining at the present day, nearly as it was 

 founded by Linne. A few of his smaller species 

 have been separated from it, by Fabricius, under 

 the name of Trachys, chiefly distinguished by 



PLATE xxvi. 



