786 FAMILY XXXIX. BUPRESTID^. 



regularly curved; disk evenly granulate-punctate with a 

 small impression in front of scutellum. Elytra with mar- 

 gins serrate near tips, disk granulate-punctate. Length 

 9-12 mm. 



Marion County; rare. June 22. One specimen 

 taken from window of street car. Recorded from 

 Georgia and Florida. 



.17. <ii>i>C'>nli."xlaf<-t Fab. (lout/if), .s Say.) (Fig. 

 300), black, length 7-13 mm., has been recorded 

 Fig 3oo. Mek,,wphi!a from Cincinnati; M./rnrola. Melsh., convex, bronzed, 

 ,w*, t .ii< /*. Fah. (Aft ] ( , ni , t h 4.5-6. f> mm., occurs in the "Middle and 



Packard in Fifth Rep. U. 



S. Ent. Comm.) South"']')! States." 



VII. AXTHAXIA Esch. 1829. (Gr., "a flower + worthy of.") 



* 



Small flattened species, having the mesosternum narrowly di- 

 vided and separated from the metasternnm by a distinct suture; au- 

 tenme serrate in both sexes, the pores at the ends of the joints; 

 head and thorax marked with shallow punctures with the interven- 

 ing lines forming a fine network. The genus has been mono- 

 graphed by 



Iioi'ii. 'Revision of the species of some Genera of Buprestidae, " 

 in Trans. Amer. Ent. See., X, 1882, 106. 



Of the eight species recognized by Horn, four have been taken 

 in Indiana, while another may occur. 



Ki:v TO INDIANA SPECIES OF ANTHAXIA. 



(i. Body depressed, oblong-oval; last ventral segment punctured like the 



ones preceding. 



It. Tarsal claws simple or merely a little broader at base. 

 c. Elytra roughly granulate. 1405. .^NEOGASTER. 



cc. Elytra feebly sculptured, at most with small raised points. 



d. Body above and beneath uniform brownish-bronze, feebly shin- 

 ing; elytra with fine raised points. 1496. VIEIDIFRONS. 

 fid. Body nearly black with a slight purplish lustre; front and sides 

 of thorax broadly cupreous or bronzed; elytra scarcely wrin- 

 kled. 1497. VIRIDICORNIS. 

 bit. Tarsal claws broadly toothed at base; color bright greeu. bluish or 

 purple, shining. 149S. QUERCATA. 

 mi. Body slender, wedge-shaped: last ventral segment much more coarsely 

 punctured than those preceding. FLAVIMANA. 



1495 (4028). ANTIIAXIA .KXKC.C ASTER Lap.. Mon. Buprest., I. 18:57, 32. 



Rather broad, depressed. Above piceous or black, the surface with 

 faint bron/e lustre: beneath, bmn/ed, more shining. Head densely punc- 

 tate, reticulate, front concave. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides 

 feebly curved in front, slightly sinuate behind: disk coarsely reticulate, 

 usually with four shallow fovetv arranged in a curved transverse row. Ely- 



