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as America is given as its native country. The 

 form is peculiar to the New World, and is never 

 found in the Old. 



Sp. 4. Stricta. — Probably a Pelecopcephalus of 

 Serville. Gmelin mentions the locality of South 

 America as well as India, Iregard it as belonging to 

 the former. 



Sp. 8. Rustica. — All species of Buprestidse allied 

 to Rustica should retain the name of Buprestis. 

 Eschcholtz has given them the name of Ancylo- 

 cheira, and Mr. Kirby that of Anoplis. 



Sp. 10. Aurulenta. — The locality of Linneus is 

 Carolina ; it belongs to Europe, and not America. 

 It appears that the Bup. aurulenta of Linneus is the 

 Decora of Fabricius. 



Sp. 18. Tristis. — Probably a true Buprestis ? In 

 the Eleutheratorum the locality is, habitat in Indiis. 

 Schonherr imagines the East Indies ; I regard it 

 as a species from the Cape of Good Hope, 



Sp. 23. and 24. Minuta. — By some mistake this 

 species^was twice described in the Systema Naturae ; 

 it belongs at present to the genus Trachys. 



Sp. 26. Atra. — Probably an Agrilus, and only a 

 dark variety of Agrilus Yiridis. As Dyticus and 

 Carabus are treated of already in my former 

 Fasciculus, I pass onwards to Tenebrio. 



Tenebrio, Linneus, 



The genus Tenebrio, according to the Systema, 

 is one of the most faulty of any attempted by 

 Linneus. He has thrown together insects of various 



