= . 
PeOre) 
a a BOC CRI. 
BUPRESTIS VIRIDIS. 
GREEN Buprestis. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antenne fetaceous, and as long as the thorax. Head drawn 
within the Thorax. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Linear, fhining blue and greeny a few exceedingly minute 
{pots fprinkled over fome parts, 
BupreEstTis ViRIDIS:; elytris integerrimis linearibus punétatus, cor- 
pore viridi elongato. Fad, Spec. Inf. 1. 281. 54.— 
Syft: Ent 223, 88,—Linn. SU; Nat: 2.663. 25.—= 
Fn, Su. 762. 
| Bupreflis viridis nitida, corpore elongato, elytris linearibus {cabris 
integerrimis. Degeer. Inf. 4. 1. 33. 6. tab, 5. 
[ise ie 
Cucuius viridi cupreusoblongus, Geoff. Inf. 1. 127. 5. 
Mordella ferraticornis. Scop. Carn. 190. 
aT a 
The Larva of this Infeét feeds on the Birch-tree (Betula Alba). 
It is rarely met within England; and if we may form any opinion 
from the filence of Naturalifts, it is not common in any part of 
Europe. 
F. I, Natural fize. 
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