ORDER t fiupreftis, 



The genus to which that author has given the 

 name of Bupreftis, confifts chiefly of the oblong 

 Chryfomels of Linnaeus as before obferved. Hef 

 diftinguifhes that genus by the following charac- 

 ters. 



The antennae never fliorter than the thorax.- 



The head deflected, half drawn back within 

 the thorax. 



The thorax as it were fwelled, or puffed up 

 like a cufhion, (pulvinatus). 



The abdomen obtufe. 



According to him the other Linnean Chryfcr- 

 mek differ from thofe arranged with his Bu- 

 preflides in their heads, (which are porrected or 

 advanced before the thorax) being lefs thick of 

 bulky ; and in the antennas, which in the Chry- 

 fomelas are twice the length of the thorax. 



The antennae are generally ferrated in this ge- 

 nus, as obferved by Geoffroy, who has given 

 the generical name of Cucujus to the French Bu- 

 preftides. 



Schgeffer fays that the mouth of the Bupreftis 

 is armed with jaws and palpi, that the tarfi have 

 five articulations, and that the elytra are mar- 

 gined, and cover the abdomen. 



The 



