COLEOPTERA. 
BUPRESTIS VARIABILIS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenna filiform, ferrated, about as long as the thorax : palpi four, filiform, the laft joint obtufe, or 
truncated: head partly retraced within the thorax. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wing-cafes bidentated, ftriated, teftaceous, and commonly fpotted with black : thorax brafly-purple, and 
dotted, with the tides teftaceous. 
Buprestis Vakiabilis: elytris bidentatis fhiatis teftaceis faepe nigro-maculatis, thorace pundlato seneo: 
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 varioutly marked with fpots of dark greenith black. Nothing can be more 
variable in colour than this infedt, fcarcely any two in this refpedl 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, greenifli, with fix obfolete brafly-purple fpots: thorax brafly-purple, 
and dotted. 
Buprestis Cancellata: elytris ferratis cancellatis viridibus maculis fex obfoletis, thoraceque pundlato 
purpureo-aeneis. 
A remarkably curious infea from the cabinet of Mr. Francillon, who received it from New Holland, 
A non-defcript fpecies. 
