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27. Buprestis suturalis. Don. Ins. of New Holland, tab. 8. 
28. Buprestis variabilis. Don. Ins. of New Holland, tab. 7. 
29. Buprestis Kingii, (n. s.) B. elytris striatis nigro-violaceis 
testaceo-quadrifasciatis baud bidentatis, thorace punctato 
nigro-seneo lateribus testaceis. 
Ohs. This species comes perhaps too near to some of the darker 
varieties of B, variabilis, of the true appearance of which scarcely 
any idea can be formed from the figures of Donovan. Our in- 
sect bears a remarkable similarity io a Surinam Buprestis, with 
serrated elytra. 
so. Buprestis bimaculata. Lin. Byst, Nat. ii. 662. 16. Oliv. 
Ins. ii. 32, tab. 12, fig. 140. 
Ohs. This is an East Indian Insect ; and, as Captain King col- 
lected a few species in the Isle of France, this is probably one of 
them. 
31. Buprestis fissiceps. Kirby, in Lin, Trans, xii. p. 458, 
tab. 23, fig. 4. 
32. Buprestis lapidosa, (n. s.) B. cuprea scabrosa thorace 
lineis duabus parallelis longitudinalibus elevatis, elytris in- 
tegris subacuminatis substriatis inter tuberculos punctatis, 
corpore subtus aeneo. 
33. Elater xanthomus, (n. s.) E, ater antennis apicem 
versus dilatatis serratis, thorace punctato canaliculate, elytris 
punctatis striatis pubescentibus basi late auratis dimidiatis. 
Ohs. This insect is about four lines long, and entirely black, 
except the upper half of the elytra. 
34. Elater nigro-terminatus, (n. s.) E. luteus capite an- 
tennisque atris, thorace convexo macula longitudinal! sub- 
acuminata a raargine antico ultra medium attingente, elytris 
punctato-striatis apice late nigris, anoque nigro. 
Ohs, This insect is about the same length with the foymer. 
