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Buprestis family, already mentioned as having been obtained from the natives, who told me they found it in rotten trees in the mountains.
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The various species of Buprestis are abundant; among them are the
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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_Capnodis tenebrionis_ (_see_ Cloudy Buprestis), 381
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Buprestis and the Capricornis, which burrow in the trunks of trees, are similarly shaped.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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In respect of prolonged immobility as the result of emotion, I find a rival of the Giant Scarites in a large black Buprestis, with a flour-speckled corselet, a lover of the blackthorn, the hawthorn and the apricot-tree.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The Buprestis has his legs symmetrically folded against his chest and belly; the
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Cerceres know their Weevils and their Buprestis-beetles absolutely; the
The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The Egyptian also held in estimation, the species _Buprestis_ and the
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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I showed myself a ready pupil to my masters 'teaching and used to paralyze a Buprestis or a
The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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_Buprestis tenebrionis_ (_see_ Cloudy Buprestis), 385, 387
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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