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MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



The first family Buprestid^* Leach is composed of some of the 

 most splendid of the beetle tribes, forming the Linnaean genus 



Fig. 23. 



Buprestis. The body is of a hard consistence, generally of an oblong- 

 ovate, and depressed form, occasionally narrow and linear [Jig. 0,3. l. 



* BiBLioGR. Refer, to the Buprestid^e. 



Lafreille. Genera Crust, &c. vol. i. 



Dalmann, in Schonh. Syn. Ins., vol. i. parts. 



Eschscholtz. Zool. Atlas (in which 15 genera are introduced.) 



Solier, in Annales Soc. Entomol. de France, 1833 (in which 34 genera are estab- 

 lished.) 



LatrelUe, in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1834. 



Spinola, \n Annal. Soc. Ent. France, for 1837. 



Klug, in the Symbolae Physicae of Ehrenberg, and in Memoir upon the Coleopt. of 

 Madagascar. 



Guerin, in Magazin de Zoologie (in which some of Dr. King's remarkable Mada- 

 gascar species were previously figured. ) 



Kirhy, in Linn. Trans, vol. xii. 



Gory and Laporte. Histoire Nat. et Iconogr. des Insectes Coleopt. 



Hope. Buprestidse Nova HoUandiae, 8vo. privately published. 



Westwood, in Jardine's Mag. Zool. and Bot., 1837. 



Guerin and Perchefon. Genera des Insectes. 



Falderman. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Mosc. t. 4. 



Laporte, in Silberra. Rev. Ent., No. 16. 



Herbst. Beschreibung, &c. (Buprestidas of Berlin) Schrift. Berl. Ges. Naturf. 

 Freund, b. 1. p. 85. 



Say, in Ann. of Lyceum of Nat. Hist. New York, vol. i. (Buprestis, Trachys, 

 Elater.) 



Steven, in Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, t. 8. or Nouv. Mem. t. 2. Bulletin, t. 2. 



Ratzehurg. Die Forst. Insecten, vol. i. (description of German Agrili.) 

 And the general works of Fabricius, Olivier, Herbst, &c. 



