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tion.J Penn. Sta., Pennsylvania, Sept. 4, 18, 1904, M. Wirtner. 

 [U. S. N. M.]. Patton, Pennsylvania, Sept. 25, 1902, M. 

 Wirtner. [U. S. N. M.]. Orono, Maine, Aug. 31, 1913 [H. 

 Osborn]. Bar Harbor, Maine, Aug. 31, 1913 [H. Osborn]. 

 Washington, D. C, June 23, 1890 [U. S. N. M.]. Difficult 

 Run, Virginia, July 25, 1915, C. P. Alexander [W. L. M.]. 

 Specimens from Uhler Collection, labeled only Sept. 23 [U. S. 

 N. M.]. 



Eupteryx flavoscuta var juvenis new variety. 



General color decidedly lighter than in the other varieties, being 

 grayish smoky ; vertex with two sanguineous vittae closely bordering 

 median line ; thorax with narrow median vitta and sides behind eyes 

 also sanguineous. 



The specimens examined, from Orono and Bar Harbor, 

 Maine, Aug. 31, 1913, kindly loaned by Prof. Herbert Osborn, 

 in whose collection they are, are more or less teneral, leaving 

 the question of fully matured appearance and perhaps of the 

 varietal status of the form in doubt. The type is a male from 

 Bar Harbor. 



New Species of Buprestidae (Col.) from the Western 



United States, with Supplementary 



notes concerning others. 



By EDWIN C. VAN DYKE, University of California, Berkeley, 



California. 



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Acmaeodera squamosa n. sp. 



Form short, cylindrical, hardly depressed, piceous bronzed, clothed 

 on both upper and under surfaces, except the apical ventral of females, 

 with minute white scales which, under high power magnification, ar'e 

 shown to be tuft-like, each elytron with two rows of small elongate 

 reddish yellow spots, the first row on the third interval and the second 

 on the ninth or humeral interval, the discal spots being placed, the 

 first at about the middle, the second midway between that and apex 

 and overlapping laterally on to the fourth and fifth intervals, and the 

 third about equidistant between this last and apex, the lateral spots 

 with the first just posterior to umbone, the second near the middle, and 

 the third and fourth following closely behind. Head coarsely, shal- 

 lowly and closely punctate, with squamules arising from each puncture, 



