PLATE LXII. 



This is a native of Australasia, and was described by Mr. Kirby 

 from a specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Mc. Leay. There is a 

 variety of the same species in the collection of Robert Brown, Esq. 

 also from Australasia, which differs only in having the golden lustre 

 of the head and thorax more inclining to greenish, and the wing- 

 cases purplish instead of dark purple. 



FIG. IV. 



BUPRESTIS PULCHELLA 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYM. 



Wing-cases acuminated, scabrous with two obscure white 

 bands : body linear and cyaneous. 



BuPRESTiS PuLCHELLA : elytris acuminatis scabris : fasciis duabus 

 obscuris albis, corpore lineari cyaneo. Lin7i. 

 Trans, 1 12. p, % p. 380. w. 8. 



This insect is from India, and not from New Holland as 

 Mr. Kirby has by some oversight stated in his paper in the Linnaean 

 Transactions. Mr. Mc Leay's insect is from India, and Dr. Hors-. 



