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44. BUPRESTIS. Antenna filiform, fer- 

 rate, as long as the thorax : feelers 4, 

 fiiliform ; the laft joint obtufe or trun- 

 cate : head partly retraced within the 

 thorax. 



This is a genus remarkable for its rich metalic colours, having fre- 

 quently the appearance of the moft highly polifhed gold or 

 copper : the larvae are ufually found among timber and in 

 decayed trees. 



Unidentata. Shells I -toothed, brafly with a golden margin. 

 Olivier 's Insecls. 32. tab. S.fg. 86, 

 In the mufeum of Sir Joseph Banks: large. 

 Antennae fhort black: bead green: front channelled, golden: 

 ihorax green with 3 broad copper-^old lines: fhells glabrous 

 green with a burnifhed golden margin : body green polifhed; 

 ends of the legs brown. 



Bicolor Shells poinded, braffy-green with a yellow fpot : bread and 

 abdomen yellow. 

 Inhabits America. Olinj.lnf. 32. tab. — fg.-—: large. 

 Antennae black : head brafly green : eyes teftaceous : legs brafly. 



A-dentata. Shells pointed dufky : body brafly polifhed : tail 4-*-oothed. 



In the mufeum of air jfofefib Banks: middle fized. 



Head braR'y polifhed with an elevated frontal heart-fhaped fpot: 

 crown dufky: thorax rather dufky wi:h numerous fhining 

 green dots: jhel's with an imprefled dot at the bafe : body 

 braflV : abdomen: above and edges of the fegments beneath 

 azure: flernum gibbous : tail azure. 



Acuta, Shells pointed punctured : body black : thorax fmooth. 

 Inhabits Europe. Degeer. Ins. 4. p, 1 33. n. 7. 



Gigantea. Shells 2-toothed rugged: thorax fmooth : body finely 

 burnilhed. 

 Inhabits South America. Natura/iji's, MifceL plate 256. 

 Body highly-polilhed copper : edges of the thorax and /hells with 

 a green tinge, the latter flightly ftriate: abdomen violet fas 

 green. * 



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