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Rel, I've come across a few beetles recently in the garden that are green and have a very sort of metalic shine to them. They look like some rice boy colored car job! I've never seen beetles like this in the garden.

I could photo a dead one if that'd help

Kipper could they be what we call Xmas Beetles?

It's possible, but the photos that I got when looking for xmas beetles showed fairly bland brown beetles.

The coating was very metalic and iridescent (eg. other colors were forming when rotating the body).

Some of them up here have a really metallic sheen to them.

Oneputt's spot on Darryl. Our Christmas Beetles have that expensive paint job look about them. Different metallic hues from different angles. How big? Ours get to 1.5-2cm long.

Here's one I pinched via Google - it's a bit bland colour-wise but shows the shape. (Thanks to Cyron on Flickr for the image).

It was about 1.5-2cm but it was very green and irridescent. It color change was sort of like the color change you see with water and oils (if that makes any sense).

did it look like this?
http://cgi.ebay.com/RIDEZ-1951-VW-VOLKSWAGEN-BEETLE-BETTLE-BUG-1-18-G_W0QQitemZ6988828216QQcategoryZ2509QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Lol Thai, that's it dude that is so it!