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raised spots very small or obsolete; thorax and elytra with several lar:;-; 1 

 impressed, densely punctured spaces, between which are elevated, glabrous, 

 abbreviated lines; tip rounded, distinctly serrated: Beneath distinctly punc- 

 tured, cupreous or brassy, obsoletely canaliculate. It is rather more de- 

 pressed than the femorata. 



Length .50 to .56, breadth .18 to .22 inch. 



O ' 



Inhabits the white oak, upon which -the perfect insect is taken in June 

 and July. 



Allied to the two last, and belonging to the same division, is a splendid 

 little green species, .31 to .33 inch long, and .14 to .15 inch broad, which 

 has been described, by Prof. Hentz, by the name of B. Harrisii. The 

 head, thighs, and margins of the pectus and thorax in the male are of a 

 brilliant cupreous color. The larva inhabits the small limbs of the white 

 pine, Plnus strobus, on which I have captured the sexes about the middle of 

 June. 



Several small Buprestes, of an elongated and cylindrical form, with the 

 scutellum divided by a transverse line into two portions, are found upon the 

 leaves of trees. Not having ascertained the habits of the larva? no descrip- 

 tions of the species are offered. The largest native one, of this division, in 

 my collection, is the granulata of Prof. Say; next to which in succession are 

 B. ignara, ruficollis, inmtba, F., &c. &c. These insects [3] should form a 

 subgenus, which might be named, from their form, Teres. 



Among about thirty American Buprestes in' my cabinet I cannot, with 

 certainty, identify the lurida of Fabricius, and have not the Americana and 

 Baltimorensis, Herbst, rufipes, quercata, and capitala, F. punctulata Schon- 

 herr, Tracliys ? cruenta Olivier, nor the Fabrician American species of the 

 same genus except the tessellata. Any of these would be acceptable, or 

 other insects would be given in exchange. 



[New England Farmer, Vol. V, No. v, p. 33, August 25, 1826.] 



JEgeria persiese. 



<5 . Wings transparent, niai'gin and nervures dark blue; body steel blue; 

 tail bearded, the beard tipped with white; legs blue, with the joints golden 

 yellow. 



? . Steel blue; anterior wings opaque, posterior ones, except the margins 

 and nervures, transparent; body with a saifron-coloured band across the 

 middle. Length of the body about 3 quarters of an inch. The female is 

 much more robust than the male. 



