THE 
CHESNUT-SHELLED INDIAN 
BUPRESTIS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennce setaceous, slightly serrated. 
Head half withdrawn beneath the thorax. 
Body thick, slightly pointed behind, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ^c. 
Brilliant gold-green Buprestis, with the thorax 
marked by numerous impressed points^ 
porrected sternum, and chesnut wing* 
sheaths. 
Chesnut-shelled Green-gold Buprestis. 
The present most elegant species has sometimes been 
confounded with the Buprestis sternicornis or smaller 
green-gold Buprestis, from which however it strikingly 
differs, not only in superior size, but also in the co- 
lour of the elytra or wing-sheaths, which in the pre» 
sent insect are of a beautiful reddish chesnut instead of 
gold-green. It is a native of India, and is represented 
in its natural size. 
