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 PLATE CCLVI. 



BUPRESTIS MINUTA. 

 Minute Buprestis, or Cow Burner. 



COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna fetaceous, length of the thorax. Head half redrafted 

 within the thorax. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Ovated. Wing-cafes bronged, rugged, and tranfverfely undu- 

 lated with flreaks of fine whitifh hairs. 



Buprestis Minuta : elytris integris tranfverfe rugofis, thorace 



fubtrilobo Izevi, corpore ovato nigro. Linn. Syji. 



Nat. 2. 663. 24. — Fn. Sv. 760.— ivz3. Ent. SyJi. i. 



p. 2. 212. Jp. III. 

 Cucujus fufco cupreus triangularis : fafciis undulatis villofo albidis. 



Geoff. Inf. I. 128. 6. 



The natural fize is reprefented at figure i. 



This pretty fpecies is found on the nut tree in May and June, 



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