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liancy of polished gold on an emerald ground, or the purest 

 azure playing over a golden surface. Very often the same 

 individual presents a mixture of many brilliant metallic 

 colours. These insects are not much varied, and they are but 

 little numerous in the north of Europe ; more abundant to- 

 wards the southern countries of France, and very much 

 varied, and very common in the warmest climates of the two 

 hemispheres. It is accordingly from such climates that the 

 largest and finest species are imported into Europe. 



The genus Buprcstis of Linnaeus is not, however, distin- 

 guished by the splendid tints with which the insects are 

 adorned, since it comprises one of the most extensive fami- 

 lies of the coleoptera. Indeed, we are informed that Pro- 

 fessor Klug, the conservator of the Berlin Museum, has 

 stated that the cabinet of that repository is enriched with 

 not less than five hundred species. 



The classification of these beautiful creatures, singularly 

 enough, scarcely attracted the attention of naturalists, with 

 the exception of Schonherr in his Synonima Insectorum, 

 and the Russian naturalist, Eschscholtz, who has divided these 

 insects into the following genera : 



Stemocera, the types of which are, B. chrysis, castanea, 

 interrupta, sternicorius of Fabricius. — Jalodis. B. hirsuta, 

 fascicularis, variolaris, pilosa, hirta. — Acmaeodera. B. gib- 

 bosa, taeniata, adspersa, ornata, cylindrica. — Trachys. — Apa- 

 nisticus. — Agrilus. B. novem maculata, exasperata, Schonh. 

 bicornis. Dej. penicillata. Klug. lucogaster. Wilden. Rubi, i^^ 

 elata, sereicollis. Dej. leucostica. Kirby. — Capnodes. B. ca- 

 riosa, tenebrionis, carbonaria, Klug. tenebricosa, tarterica. __ 

 — Buprestis. B. florentina Dahl. mariana, lugubris, cuprea, 

 &c. — PcBc'ilonotus. B. conspersa, rutilans. — Dicerea. B. Bero- 

 linensis senea, alni, acuminate. — Ancyluchira. B. flavomacu- 

 lata, strigosa, 8 guttata, punctata, cupressis, hoemorrhoidalis, 

 rustica. — Stigmodera. B. grandis, variabilis, macularia, ex- 



