May, '06] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l6t 



This locality seems to have been early discredited, for in 

 the Catalogus of Gemminger and Harold (1869) the locality 

 New Orleans is given for the species. I have been unable to 

 discover the origin of this change, but it is doubtless connected 

 with the fact that there is in the L,eConte collection a pair of 

 elytra fastened to the body of another Buprestide, and bear- 

 ing the legend in Salle's handwriting "The elytra alone are 

 from blondeli" and the locality label " Nile Orleans." 



In the Catalogus the Buprestis Iccontei of Gory (1840) is 

 also and properly referred to this genus, but with the locality 

 "Am. Bor." instead of Mexico as originally given by Gory. 

 Coming down to the " Biologia," the locality of blondeli has 

 again been changed, for here we read- ' Said to come from 

 Mexico, but there, is some doubt of the correctness of this 

 locality. There is a single example in the British Museum 

 without locality, here figured." This figure, Mr. Blanchard 

 writes me, agrees very well with the elytra in the LeConte 

 collection. 



In his treatment of the Buprestidae in Wytsman's Genera 

 Insectorum, Kerremans states with apparent assurance that 

 blondeli is from Mexico, and that it is identical with Gory's 

 lecontei. It is difficult to know what to make of this state- 

 ment, since Kerremans admits he has never seen a specimen 

 of the genus and yet gives no authority for his assertion. He 

 pronounces Gory's description as insufficient and his figure 

 unrecognizable and not at all. like that given by Waterhouse 

 in the Biologia. Gory's description is short and unsatisfactory, 

 it is true, but it is sufficiently characteristic to warrant our 

 saying that the single examples of lecontei in the LeConte and 

 Horn Collections from, Georgia and Louisiana respective!}', 

 are the real thing and a very different thing from blondeli. 

 The lack of correspondence between Gory's and Waterhouse's 

 figures is not at all surprising. 



Assuming that the blondeli elytra in the L/eCoute collection 

 are correctly labeled, there yet remain two undescribed species 

 from our Pacific Coast region, consideration of which has 

 prompted this investigation. One of these is a green species 

 resembling blondeli, and the few specimens known have, I be- 



