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coupe anterieurment et muni d'une petite cornu dessous de la 

 come il y a un petit enfoncement. ' ' I also referred to Drury's 

 fig : (Exotic Ins :) which I found much better & more obviously 

 characteristic than that of 01i\aer — The Ins: I sent you as Mo- 

 lossus comes nearest to 01i\4er's fig & description of .S". Biueph- 

 alus & so I have named it in my collection. 



As to the large Buprestis, specimens of which you sent me 

 with the supposition of its being the B. Mariana, I cannot posi- 

 tively say what species it is referable to, but it is probable I 

 think that it is no other than the Mariana — Fabricius, Syst. 

 Eleut. says it inhabits ' ' Europa boreali ' ' he refers to Drury 

 Vol I t 30 & to Herbst : Arch : t 28 f. 4 — these two figures 

 differ ven,- much from each other, the latter was designed from 

 the European specimen, & the former from a specimen capt- 

 ured in Virginia, & very probably the difference observable be- 

 tween the two figures, is owing to the little care taken in the 

 drawing or engraving — In Turton's Lin : an insect is de- 

 scribed under the name Virghiica which is doubtless intended 

 for the insect in question, he refers to this same fig. of Drury 

 before mentioned — Fab. Syst. Eleut, omits this specific name 

 (Virginica) no doubt judging it to be the same precisely with 

 the European Mariana — Turton says of Mariana that it In- 

 habits New Holland & .does not give it as an European Insect 

 at all — Olivier on the other hand says it inhabits in all Europe 

 & also in America — So that you ^a411 see that the thing is not 

 settled — Paykull. Faun. Suec. gives a description somewhat in 

 detail, agreeing very well with our insect — I have not access to 

 Petiver's Gazoph but that work is not quoted in the Syst : 

 Eleut : under the species Mariana — The sinus in the terminal 

 abdominal segment of the male is indeed remarkably conspicu- 

 ous, the same conformation occurs though less obviously in 

 some other Insects the only ones which at present occur to me 

 as exhibiting the truth of this remark are the Cicindelae, in 

 some of the males of which, this structure is perceptible, & the 

 tail of the females in many instances is canaliculated in a simi- 

 lar manner — The specimen you allude to marked B. I should 

 suppose is but a variety it is however of a larger size & less 



