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CoLEoPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper, the length of the thorax: Head half concealed, 
SPECTFIC CHARACTER. 
Head and thorax fine blue. Shells upper half changeable green 3 
lower part reddith purple. 
BurresTis Sauicis: elytris integerrimis viridis nitens, coleop- 
teris aureis bafi viridibus. Fab. Gen. Inf. 
Mant. p. 237. 
Buprefits elegantula, Schrank. Inf- Aufir. n. 365. p. 195. 
Cacuius rubinus. Fourcroy. Ent. Paris. T. 1. n. 4. p. 33- 
Le Richard rubis. Geoff. Inf. Paris F. I. p. 126. | 
Geputzter Stinkkafer. Weiden-Prachtkifer. Panz. Faun. Inf. Germ. 
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This uncommonly beautiful Infe& has been defcribed as a native 
ef Algiers in Africa, a figure of it is given in the work of Olivier, 
and another in Panzer’s Hiftory of the Infects of Germany ; we 
find it alfo deferibed by Fourcroy and Geoffrory as a native of France, 
but cannot learn that it has been confidered as an Englifh fpecies 
before this Jime. 
We were not fo fortunate as to take this Infect, it was commu- 
nicated by a perfon on whofe veracity we can rely: he found it 
onthe bark of an old willow tree, between Dulwich Common and 
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