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NATURAL HISTORY OF 
BUPRESTIS STERNICORNIS. 
PLATE VI. Fig. 2. 
Oliv. 32, pi. 6, fig. 52, a . — Sternocera stemicornis, Esch , 
Dejean. 
This fine species is rather of smaller size than 
the preceding, but very similar to it in form and 
sculpture. The colour of the whole body is bright 
green with copper-colour and golden reflections, 
the antennae and tarsi alone being blackish. The 
thorax is very convex, and has its hinder margin 
produced in the centre in the form of a triangle ; 
the surface is thickly covered with large and deeply 
impressed punctures. The elytra are pretty thickly 
marked with minute punctures, and numerous round- 
ed impressions, variable in size, which are filled with 
ash-coloured scales ; one of these placed at the base 
of each elytron is larger than the rest. At the apex 
of each elytron there are two small teeth, and another 
on the external edge at a small distance from them. 
The sternum is produced into a strong spine, and 
is bent downwards. Likewise an inhabitant of the 
East Indies. 
