80 PLATE CCCCXXII. 
Prinus Rapax: Degeer. Inf. 4. p. 931. n. 5. #. 9: f. 5.6.7 
Buprestis Fur: Scop. 210. 
This deftructive little infe&t is produced from a foft and hairy fix- 
footed larva of a ferruginous colour, which preys on furniture, books, 
and other fimilar articles. It refides principally in wood, occupying 
fmall tubular cavities, which it perforates in. a variety of dire&tions, 
reducing, as it proceeds in ‘its devious courfe, the hardeft timber 
within the dimenfions of its receptacle to a light duft or powder. 
Ptinus Fur is alfo very detrimental to preferved articles of natural 
hiftory. The nymph or pupa is contained in a glutinous follicle. 
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