ENTOMOLOGY. 



FIG. I 2, 2. 



BUPRESTIS CARDINALIS 

 CARDINAL BUPRESTIS 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wing-cases serrated, red, with three elevated lines: thorax 

 yellowish, having a large spot in the disk, with the head and abdo- 

 men black. 



BUPRESTIS Cardinalis : elytris serratis rubris: lineis tribus 

 elevatis thorace flavescente : disco nigro capite 

 abdomineque nigris. 



A non-descript species of very singular character and formation^ 

 and from the same country as the preceding. The head is black 

 above and beneath ; the thorax entirely yellow above, except a 

 bilobate spot in the middle ; beneath black, except the anterior part, 

 where the yellow passes from the upper surface of the thorax and 

 forms a kind of collar : the wing-cases, with the scutel, are of a red 

 colour, much inclining to scarlet ; abdomen and legs black. 



The upper, as well as the lower surface of this curious insect is 

 represented in the annexed plate at fig. %, 2, 2. 



