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COLEOPTERA. 
The Bupreftis ignita of Linnzus, we imagined, was unknown in the cabinets of the curious in this 
country, till we difcovered an infec nearly corre{ponding in charaéter with it, in the colle@tion of Mr. Drury, 
and which we prefume is the B. ignita, or at leaft a variety of it. It has not the brilliance of colours that 
{fo eminently diftinguifhes B. vittata, but in form and fize it agrees with it. The only figure of that {pecies 
is given by Olivier, from a fpecimen formerly in the cabinet of Gigot d’Orcy, of Paris. We have exa- 
mined the fpecimen in the cabinet of Sir J. Banks, referred to by Fabricius as B. vittata, and find the figure 
in Sulzer is of that {pecies, as well as the {fpecimen we have reprefented. 
Fabricius has given as a part of the fpecific diftin&tion of thefe infeds, that B. ignita has ¢hree Spines at 
the end of each wing cafe, or elytron, and B. vittata no more than ¢wo. This may form a fufficient cha- 
racteriftic in thofe f{pecies; but we muft remark, that it is not fo in Bupreftis ocellata. We have two {peci- 
mens that have two {pines at the end of each elytron, and another with three, as Fabricius has defcribed it. 
We alfo find feveral infects nearly allied to B. vittata, the ftripe of gold on each fide excepted; one of 
thefe has fix teeth, another four teeth, and a third only two. 
The Bupreftides are fuppofed, for the moft part, to undergo their transformations in the water, or 
marihy ground. 
Canna Indica.—Indian flowering Reed. 
This plant is common in China, and is found alfo in moft other parts of Afia, Africa, and America. In 
our climate it requires to be placed in the ftove, where it produces an abundant fucceflion of flowers 
throughout the fummer. It bears a berry which is perfectly hard and round, of a black colour, and highly 
polifhed. It is called Indian Shot. 
