THE 
GREAT BUPRESTIS. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna filiform, and fometimes ferrated; of the 
length of thorax. 
Feelers or Palpi filiform: with the laffc joint ob- 
tufe or truncated. 
Head partly retraced under the thorax. 
Specific Character. 
COPPER-COLOURED BUPRESTIS with a 
glofs of green-gold; the wing-lhells wrink¬ 
led, and bidentated at the extremities. 
The GREAT COPPER-COLOURED BU¬ 
PRESTIS. 
The GREAT GOGGLE-EYED BEETLE. 
Grew's Mufeum Reg. Soc. 
Merian Sur. pi. 50. 
The genus Bupreftis is remarkable for the metal¬ 
lic fplendor by which moll of the exotic fpecies are 
diftinguifhed; and which in fome is fo great as to 
equal the appearance of the moft highly-polifhed 
gold 
