NATURAL HISTORY. 
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fome are minute, though not inferior in 
fplendor to the larger ; which renders them 
proper objefts for the delightful amufement 
of the magnifylng-glafs. And here it may 
be proper to obferve, that living objecls are 
always to be preferred to thofe which are 
dead, by the enquirer into the produce of na- 
ture. The perfeft infects of this genus are, 
like their larvae, perfect tigers in their difpo- 
fition for prey, which they «ttack, and de- 
ftroy, with every effort iu their power. 
B U P R E S T E S G U T T A L A. 
The SPOTTED BUPRESTES. 
HE whole body of this iiifeft is of a 
green and gold colour, with a blue tinge un- 
derneath. But it is chiefly diflingulfhed by 
four white concave fpots upon the elytra. 
The entire upper part of this infect appears 
inofl; beautifully dotted, when feen through 
a microfeope. 
The larvae is fuppofed not to have been 
yet difeovered : but from the fimilarity of 
the perfeft infeft with the elater, and both 
being found among timber and decayed trees, 
the larva: and metamorphofis may be imagin- 
ed to correfpondi 
CACABUS 
