COLEOPTERA. 
BUPRESTIS VARIABILIS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenna filiform, ferrated, about as long as the thorax ; palpi four, filiform, the lafl; joint obtufe, or 
truncated: head partly retraced within the thorax. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wing-cafes bidentated, ftriated, teftaceous, and commonly fpotted with black : thorax bralTy-purple, and 
dotted, with the fides teftaceous. 
Bufrestis Vakiabilis: elytris bidentatis ftriatis teftaceis faepe nigro-maculatis, thorace pun6fato aeneo: 
lateribus teftaceis. 
Three varieties of this fpecies are fhewn in this plate, one of which has the wing-cafes entirely imma- 
culate, the other two are varioufly marked with fpots of dark greenifti black. Nothing can be more 
variable in colour than this infe£t, fcarcely any two in this refpetl refembling each other. It is not 
uncommon in New South Wales, but has not been hitherto described. 
BUPRESTIS GANG EL LATA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wing-cafes ferrated, cancellated, greenifti, with fix obfolete brafty-purple fpots: thorax bralfy-purple, 
and dotted. 
Bufrestis Cancell ata: elytris ferratis cancellatis viridibus maculis fex obfoletis, thoraceque pundlato 
purpureo-aeneis. 
A remarkably curious infe£t from the cabinet of Mr. Francillon, who received it from New Holland. 
A non-defcript fpecies. 
