COLEOPTERA. 



transformations in the water, or marshy ground. This opinion cannot, however, be. 

 adopted, as it is now well ascertained that they reside in the early stages of their existence 

 in timber. The Chinese plant represented is the Canna Indica, or Indian flowering 

 Reed. 



BUPRESTIS (CHRYSOCHROA) OCELLATA. 



Plate 7. fig. 2. upper, and 2 a under side. 



Ch. Sp. B. viridi-nitens, elytris lineis tribus elevatis, macula ad basin alteraque apicali aureis, 



ocello magno flavo. Long. Corp. 1 unc. 4 lin. 

 B. shining-green, elytra with three elevated lines, a large yellow round spot in the 



middle of each, having a golden red spot above, and another behind it. Length 



14- inch. 

 Syn. Buprestis Ocellata, Fabricius Syst, Eleuth. 2. p. 193. no. 38. Oliv. Ent. 2. p. 27. 



t. \.f. 3. a. b. Herbst. Col. IX. p. 70. t. 144./. 1. De Geer Ins. 7. 633. 



tab. 47. /. 12. 



The Buprestis ocellata is very rare. Olivier says it is from Chandernagore in the 

 East Indies. Mr. Drury possessed an extraordinary variety of this insect from China, in 

 which the two spots united at the suture so as to form only one large spot on the back 

 when the wing cases are closed. 



These spots are strikingly characteristic of this species. They are situated in the 

 centre of each elytron ; are somewhat pellucid, and in fine specimens are cream colour, 

 surrounded with a crimson circle. These spots are sometimes brown ; probably they 

 become so after the insect dies. 



Our figures represent this insect with expanded wings ; one of those is designed to 

 exhibit the beautiful appearance of the under surface, particularly the effulgent abdomen 

 and purple colour of the interior part of the elytra. 



MYLABRIS CICHORII. 



Plate 8. fig. 1. and 1*. 



Tribe. Traciieeides, Latreille. 



Family. Meloid.e. 



Genus. Mylabris, Fabricius. Meloe p. Linn. 



Ch. Sp. M. nigra elytris macula basali fasciisque duabus latis undatis t'ulvis. Long. Corp. 

 9—12 lines. 

 M. black, each of the elytra with a round basal spot, and two broad irregular bands 

 of a fulvous colour. Length from fths to 1 inch. 

 Syn. Meloe cichorii, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. II. p. 680. 5. Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 1 1. p. 81. 2. 



Schonh. Syn. Ins. vol. 3. p. 31. Billb. Monagr. Mylabr. p.W.A.t. 1. /". S. 



