In the Indies, and in China, the women use for dressing their hair with, or as ear-rings, another Coleopteron of the same tribe, which begins even to be employed for this purpose by the women of the south of France. It is a _Buprestis_, of splendid colours, and of metallic brightness. Linnaeus, as we said above, gave to it, wrongly, the name of _Buprestis_, which among the ancients served to designate a very different insect, the _Meloe_, of the family of the _Cantharidae_; but modern naturalists have allowed this illegitimate title.

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