156 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



BUPRESTIS STERNICORNIS. 



PLATE VI. Fig. 2. 



Oliv. 32, pi. 6, fig. 52, a — Sternocera sternicornis, Esch, 

 Dejean. 



This fine species is rather of smaller size than 

 the preceding, but very similar to it in form and 

 sculpture. The colour of the whole body is bright 

 green with copper-colour and golden reflections, 

 the antennae and tarsi alone being blackish. The 

 thorax is very convex, and has its hinder margin 

 produced in the centre in the form of a triangle ; 

 the surface is thickly covered with large and deeply 

 impressed punctures. The elytra are pretty thickly 

 marked with minute punctures, and numerous round- 

 ed impressions, variable in size, which are filled with 

 ash-coloured scales ; one of these placed at the base 

 of each elytron is larger than the rest. At the apex 

 of each elytron there are two small teeth, and another 

 on the external edge at a small distance from them. 

 The sternum is produced into a strong spine, and 

 is bent downwards. Likewise an inhabitant of the 

 East Indies. 



