native country, which will account for the splendid exotic 

 species that are occasionally met with by entomologists in this 

 kingdom. Very few of the following, 1 suspect, are entitled 

 to a place in our British Cabinets. 



BupRESTis Linn. j4pex of elytra not serrated. 



1. splendens Fab. — Lhin. Trans, vol. 10. pi. 32. J". 1, 2. 

 Mr. Marsham has related an extraordinary fact concerning 



the longevity of this species : the perfect insect was seen to 

 emerge from a desk made of Baltic fir that had been in the 

 office at Guildhall upwards of twenty years, and the desk 

 having been afterwards planed, the passage was discovered 

 which the insect had formed : it is probable that it had re- 

 mained in the larva state the greater portion of that period. 



Anthaxia Esch. 



2. nitidula LtJiyi. — Cwt. Brit. Etit. pi. 31. 



This brilliant little species was first detected by Mr. Dale 

 and myself, the early part of last June (1824'), in an excursion 

 to the New Forest: we beat four out of whitethorn flowers 

 in the neighbourhood of Brockenhurst, in the heat of the day, 

 at which time they flew with vei*y great celerity. Mr. Dale 

 has subsequently taken it as early as the 19th May. 



3. Salicis Fab. — Doti. v. 4f.pl. 127.— Pz. I, 12. 



" 8th June, on bark of an old willow between Dulwich 

 Common and Norwood." Donovan. . 



4. quadripunctata Lirm. — Oliv. 2. ?io. 32. t. 10. f. 117. 



I think it is this species which Mrs. Griffiths found near 

 Torquay. 



PHiENops Meg. Apex of elytra serrated. 



5. tarda Gyll.—Panz. 68, 21. 



Taken near Windsor by Mr. J. H. Griesbach. 



Ancylocheira Esch. Apex of elytra tridentate. 



6. flavomaculata Fab. — Mars., Panz. 22, 9. 



On trunks of Lombardy poplars, St. George's fields. 



7. rustica Li?i7i. — Mars., Pz. 68, 19. Elytra bidentate. 

 Several times recorded as British. Old Brompton, Mr. G. 



Waterhouse. 



DicEREA Esch. Latipalpis Soli. Apex of elytra bidentate. 



8. aenea Linn. — Oliv. v. 2. wo. 32. /. 6.f. 51. carniolica Fab. 

 June, near Ebberley House, Devonshire, Mr. Hole. 



Lampra Meg. Elytra serrated or dentated. 



9. rutilans Fab.— Panz. 22, 8. 



June, near Matlock, Derbyshire, but on what authority I 

 know not. It is one of the most brilliant of the European 

 Buprestidae, although it does not equal the superb colours of 

 some of the eastern species, which are greatly esteemed by the 

 ladies of China, whose dresses are often embroidered with the 

 resplendent elytra of the Buprestis vittata. 



Cratcegus Oxyacantha, Hawthorn or Whitethorn is figured. 



