702 FAMILY XXXIX. - BUPRESTID/E. 



surface coarsely punctate, much more densely on sides. Elytra wider than 

 thorax, gradually wider to apical third, thence narrowing to apex, margins 

 serrate; surface sparsely punctate and with a faint trace of first costa and 

 a basal and two discal impressions, one in front of middle, the other one- 

 third from apex, these often bright blue or green. Prosternuni very faintly 

 lobed in front. Length 0-8 mm. 



Lake and Posey counties; scarce. May 20-June 7. 



1505 (10,001). CHBYSOBOTIIRIS SCITULA Gory, Mun. Puprest., Supp., IS: 57. 

 100. 



Rather elongate, convex. Dark cupreous or deep violet, elytra cadi 

 \vilh three more brilliant blue or green spols; antenna 1 piceous, the three 

 basal joints greenish or cupreous, third joint as long as the next three. 

 (Typeus with a small triangular notch at middle. Thorax with sides 

 straight, rounded near front angles; disk without depressions, coarsely 

 punctate and finely transversely strigose. Elytra wider than thorax, coarsely, 

 deeply, not densely punctate, the colored spots in the position of the usual 

 fovese. Length 5.5-7 mm. 



Stai'ke and Perry counties; scarce. May 20-Jnne 27. 



IX. ACTENODES Lac. 1857. (Or., "without + a comb or crest.") 



Buprestids of small or medium size having the antennae inserted 

 at the end of short grooves as in Chrysobotli-ris, Imt differing from 

 Ihe latter genus by the small scuteilum, the equal first and second 

 joints of hind tarsi and the very narrow vertex between the eyes. 



150<; (4C,<;<;). ACTENODES ACORNIS Say. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., VI, 

 159; ibid. II, 502. 



Broadly oblong, subdepressed. Brassy black above, dull cupreous be- 

 neath ; scuteilum green. Antennae short, the third joint as long as the next 

 three; clypeus almost truncate. Thorax twice as broad as long, with a 

 transversely sub-basal impression ; surface densely and coarsely punctured, 

 transversely strigose. Elytra broader than thorax ; surface without costa? 

 or distinct impressions but densely and roughly transversely wrinkled ; mar- 

 gins serrate from near the humerus. Length 10-13 mm. 



Lake, Marshall, Orange and Vigo counties; frequent in Lake, 

 scarce elsewhere. P>eaten from vegetation. June 2- June 28. 



Tribe II. JULODINI. 



( )nr species belonging to this tribe arc convex and subeylindrical 

 in form, narrowed behind and clothed with suberect pubescence. 

 The front is not contracted by the insertion of antenna?; thorax 

 truncate behind and closely applied to the elytra; mesostcrnuin 

 deeply emarginate ; first joint of hind tarsi elongate. The tribe is 

 represented by four genera, two of which occur in Indiana. 



