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subquadrate, ciliate: processu dorsali palporum longitudine, basi subcorneo, apice 
membranaceo, ciliato. 
Palpi maxillares articulo primo obconico, secundo pateriformi, tertio vel ultimo preceden- 
tibus simul sumptis fere longiore, subsubulato. 
Palpi labiales clavati, vix labio longiores, articulo primo subgloboso, secundo obconico, 
tertio vel ultimo maximo crasso cylindrico apice truncato perforato. 
Lahium membranaceum, medio crassiusculum, apice emarginatum, lobis lateralibus rotun- 
datis ciliatis sub-diaphanis. 
Mentum breve, latum, corneum, transverso-quadratum. 
Caput horizontale subtrigonum clypeo antice rotundato. Thorax magnus subquadratus, 
supra convexiusculus, posticé lobatus. Scuteliwm minimum. Corpus depressiusculum 
coxis fere equé dissitis. Tarsi breves quinque-articulati, articulo primo minimo vix 
conspicuo, secundo tertio et quarto subtus setigeris, ultimo aliis simul sumptis longiore 
infra longitudinaliter fossulato, fossula ad apicem inter ungues in processum setis 
duabus instructum desinente. 
Genus Buprestidarum habitu quodammodo fruens. 
36. Vicorsiz. H. supra viridieneus punctatus, thorace eminentiis lcevissimis, elytris geminatim striatis : liturd 
media flavo-bimaculata. 
Long. corp. 5%5- 
Caput viridizneum, antice et ad latera punctatissimum, oculis albis, collo subtus testaceo, antennis basi 
piceis apicem versus nigrioribus, et clave obscure articulo ultimo rufescente. Thorax viridieeneus, 
punctatus, lineis duabus mediis postice confluentibus, et maculis duabus lateralibus nigris nitidis- 
simis eminentibus. Scutellum nigrum. Elytra viridieenea, striis punctorum geminatis, et latera versus 
lineis elevatis; litura media longitudinali nigra maculis duabus magnis flavis lavioribus insigni. 
Corpus totum subtus testaceum nitidum. Pedes testacei geniculis et unguibus nigris. 
Hac species ab amico tam rei entomologice perito quam studioso N. A. Vi tgors Armigero nomen mutuatur. 
Oss. This insect presents perhaps one of the most curious and novel forms of the whole 
collection. Its brilliancy and variety of colour, its beauty of sculpture and its similarity at first 
sight to the Linnean genus Buprestis, altogether render it a most extraordinary insect to be 
placed among the Necrophaga: yet it cannot be doubted that the true place of this curious 
insect is in this stirps. The only other insects to which it bears any similarity are the Buprestidae, 
and it will prove perhaps, by reason of the strong relation of analogy which it bears to this groupe, 
most useful in shewing their place in their own tribe. That it does not, however, belong to the 
Buprestide clearly appears from its horizontal head, the lateral insertion of its clavate antennz, 
the structure of the lower surface of its body, and above all from its organs of manducation. In 
all these particulars, on the other hand, it agrees with the general characters of the Necrophuga, 
some of which, such as the genus Languria, display a similar brilliancy of colour, and a form even 
more longitudinal. Near to this genus, therefore, and to Dacne I conceive HelotaVigorsii to come, 
since it also agrees with the latter in the form of its antenne and structure of mouth. The 
feet nevertheless are constructed differently from those of both these genera, for although our 
insect is with still greater difficulty detected to be pentamerous, the minute evanescent joint 
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