INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 44. Bupreftis. 401 
44. BUPRESTIS. Antennce filiform, fer- 
rate, as long as the thorax; feelers 4, 
fiiltforra ; the laft joint obtufe or trun- 
cate : head partly retracted within the 
thorax. 
This is a genus remarkable for its rich metalic colours, having fre- 
quently the appearance of the moft highly polilhed gold ot 
copper : the lar^^ are ufually found among timber and in 
decayed trees. 
Shells I -toothed, braffy with a golden margin. 
Oli'vier's InseBs. JZ. tab. 8. jig. 8b. 
In the mufeum of Sir Joseph Banks : large. 
Antennae Ihort black; head green; front channelled, golden: 
thorax green with 3 broad copper- -old lines: Jhelli glabrous 
green with a burnifhed golden margin : body green poiilhed; 
ends of the legs brown. 
Shells poinred, bralTy-green with a yellow fpot: breafl and 
abdomen yellow. 
Inhabits Asnerka. Olios. Inf. 32. tab. — -fg.—'. large. 
Antennae black : head braffy -green : eyes teltaceous ; legs braffy. 
Shells pointed duflcy: body braffy poiilhed: tail 4-roothed, 
In the mufeum of oir ^ofetsh Banks', middle fized. 
Head braffy poiilhed with an elevated frontal heart-lhaped fpot; 
crooun dulky: thorax rather dulky with numerous Ihining 
green dots : fulls with an impreffed dot at the bafe : body 
braffy : ahdosnem above and edges of the fegments beneath 
azure: /?er/z/w/z gibbous : tail 3 .z\xx<i, 
' Shells pointed punftured ; body black : thorax fraooth. 
Inhabits Enrage. Degeer, Ins. 4. /. 133. ?2. 7. 
Shells 2-toothed rugged : thorax fraooth : body finely 
burnifhed. 
Inhabits South America- Naturalifi's, Mifcel. flate z^ 6 . 
highly-pohihed copper: edges of the thorax and fiells with 
a green tinge, the latter fl.ghtly ftriace ; abdomen violet legs 
green. 
Vol. II.— 3 E 
Vittata. 
