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PLATE CCLXXXIL 



BUPRESTIS PYGMEA. 



COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas fetaceous, length of the thorax. Head half retraced, 

 or drawn within the thorax. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AUD 



STNONTMS. 



Wing cafes blue. Head and thorax brown, bronzed. 



BuPRESTis Pygmea: elytris integris cyaneis, capite thoraceque 

 aeneis nitidis. FaL Ent. Syji. i.p. 2. /. 211. Sp. iio. 



The difcovery of this minute but rare fpecies of Bupreftis in this 



country, is due to Alexander M'Leay, Efq. It was found in a 



puddle, on the road fide, near Coombe Wood, in the month of May 

 laft. The fpecimen is reprefented in the annexed plate; the 

 fmallefl figure denotes the Jiatural fize. 



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