COLEOPTERA. 
—_—— hor 
BUPRESTIS OCELLATA. 
OCELLATED BUPRESTIS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Shining green. Elytra terminate in three points: a large round yellow fpot in the middle of each elytron, 
and two golden-red f{pots, one above and the other below it. 
BurRgsTIs OCELLATA viridi nitens elytris tridentatis: maculis duabus aureis ocellarique flava. Fab. Ent. 
Syft. 4. p. 2. 193. 30. 
De Geer Inf: 7. 633. 30. tab. 47. fig. 12. 
Buprefie Oculé. Ow. Inf. 32. tab. 2. fig. 3. 
Sulz. Hift. Inf. tab. 6. fig. 15. 

The Bupreftis ocellata is a native of China, and is very rare: fpecimens of it have been found in parcels 
of the common fort. Olivier fays it is from Chandernagore in the Eaft Indies. Mr. Drury has an extra- 
ordinary variety of this infect from China, in which the two fpots unite at the future fo as to form only 
one large {pot on the back when the wing cafes are clofed. 
Thefe {pots on the wing cafes are ftrikingly charateriftic of this fpecies; at leaft we have not ob- 
ferved them in any other of the Bupreftis genus. They are ufually fituated in the centre of each elytron ; 
are fomewhat pellucid, and in fine fpecimens are cream colour, furrounded with a crimfon circle. Thefe 
{pots are fometimes brown; probably they become fo after the infec dies. 
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