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INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 44. Buprefrs. 



Meditabun- 

 da. 



Shells entire, fhining brown: head and thorax coppery \ 

 body bronzed. 

 Inhabits North America. Oliv. Ins. 32. tah. 10. "r. 107. 

 Head and thorax green, depreffed at the fides . Jhel > earl 



with a large impreficd dot at the bafc and a few imailerones 

 on the back. 



Atomaria. Shells entire linear, with a raifed line down the middle: 

 body braliy with numerous afhy fpecks. 



Inhabits Surinam ; 3 times as large as i<. viridis. 



Antennae black : head brail y with amy fpecks : front very much 

 imprefied : thorax groen bronzed ipeckled with cinereous : 

 line on thzfLcIls ilexuous at the bafe. 



* Viridis, Shells entire linear punctured: body elongated finning 

 green and blue in (hades. 

 Inhabits Europe. Done-van's E-iglifa Infecls v \ plate 174. 

 Eyes tefheeous : legs blue : tail 2-toothed. 

 The larva feeds on the leaves of the Birch tree. 



2-guttata. Sh e n s ent j rc linear, green with a white dot: abdomen blue 

 with 3 white dots each fide. 

 Inhabits England. Oliv. Ins. 32. tab. ~.fig' 7$. 

 Varies in having the /Wyblue and green. 



Linealis* Shells entire linear green : head and thorax dull green. 

 Inhabits Denmark; refembles B. viridis. 



Antennae bronzed : JlxelU punctured : hind-margin of the thorax 

 finuate. 



Atra, 



Elata. 



Pavida, 



Shells entire linear: body elongated black. 



Inhabits Germany; exadiy refembles B. viridis except in colour, 



Shells entire linear: body elongated fhining gold. 

 Inhabits Saxony, fize of the lait : body entirely bronzed. 



Shells entire linear: body blue-brown, beneath brafly. 



Inhabits About half the fize of B. atra. 



Thorax caniculate : body above brown with a blue glofs, be. 

 neath bronzed. 



Emarginata Shells entire linear : body black : head grooved. 

 Inhabits France; four times as i'mall as B. atra. 



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