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SUPRESQTIS MINU TA, 
MINuTE Buprestis, or Cow Burner. 
COLEOPTERA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antennz fetaceous, length of the thorax: head half retraéted 
within the thorax. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
“AND 
SY NONYMS. 
Ovate: wing-cafes entire, bronzed, rugged, and tranfverfely undu- 
Jated with ftreaks of fine whitifh hairs; thorax fomewhat trilobate, 
and {mooth. 
Buprestis Minuta: elytris integris tranfverfe rugofis, thorace 
fubtrilobo lzvi, corpore ovato nigro. Linn. Sy/t. 
Nat. 2. 663. 24.—Fn. Sv. 160.—Fab. Ent. Syft. 1. 
p- 2.212. fp. 111. 
Cucujus fufco cupreus triangularis; fafciis undulatis villofa albidis. 
Geoff. Inf. 1. 128. 6. 
The natural fize is reprefented at figure 1. 
This pretty {pecies is found on the nut tree in May and June. 
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