ENTOMOLOGY. 



field possesses it from Java. It appears to be the Buprestis Spinosa 

 of Fabricius, although he does not notice the faint downy bands on 

 the elytra. 



This is an insect of diminutive size, but very singular formation. 

 The smaller figure at the bottom of the plate, inscribed with four 

 stars, shews the natural size, the other figure will elucidate the 

 appearance it assumes when viewed through the lens of a microscope. 



It was intimated to our readers some short time ago, that 

 through the liberality of the council of t' .e Linnaean Society, as well 

 as kindness of other members, we should be enabled at a future 

 period to produce certain Icones of extremely rare and interesting 

 objects, the descriptions of which had appeared already in the 

 Transactions of that learned body, but unaccompanied with any 

 pictorial elucidation. We are happy upon the present occasion to 

 have it in our power to gratify, in some degree at least, the public 

 expectation by the partial fulfilment of our promise. The suite of 

 insects delineated in the annexed plate will be found in this respect, 

 it is presumed, of material interest to the scientific naturalist ; they 

 constitute an illustration of several choice and curious species of 

 Buprestidag, described in a valuable Entomological paper that 

 appeared in the twelfth volume of the Linnaean Transactions, under 

 the title of Mr. Kirby's Century of Insects," and will be found on 

 examination to consist of those only which have not been figured 

 among the insects shewn in the explanatory plates accompanying 

 that paper. Those insects were kindly communicated to us for the 

 purpose of this illustration by the secretary of the society, Alexander 

 Mc. Leay, Esq. and are of course the individual examples described 

 in the Transactions of the society. 



