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THE 3 
CHESNUT-SHELLED INDIAN 
-BUPRESTIS. 
JERE AATCC IR 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne setaceous, slightly serrated. E 
Head half withdrawn beneath the thorax. 
Body thick, slightly pointed behind. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
‘Brilliant gold-green Buprestis, with the thorax 
marked by numerous impressed points, 
porrected sternum, and gicsnut Wines 
sheaths. 
~ Chesnut-shelled Green-gold Buprestis. 
Ne Ca ee SESE ENTE 
The present most elegant species has sometimes beeri 
confounded with the Buprestis sternicornis or smaller 
green-gold Buprestis, from which however it strikingly 
differs, not only in superior size, but also in the co- 
Jour of the elytra or wing-sheaths, which in the pre- 
sent insect are of a beautiful reddish chesnut instead of 
gold-green. It is a native of India, and is represented 
in its natural size. 
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