Vol. xxixj ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 53 



New Species of Buprestidae (Col.) from the Pacific 



States No. 2. 



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



California. 



The following descriptions are in the way of a supplement 

 to some species described in a previous paper. 1 



Poecilonota bridwelli n. sp. 



Elongate-oval, sub-depressed: brassy green with the exception of the 

 antennal and tar sal joints which show a cupreous tint; the front and 

 prosternum moderately densely clothed with long white hair, the 

 surface elsewhere including the pronotum and elytra more sparsely 

 clothed and with shorter and more depressed pile; the depressed areas 

 above and the greater portion of the under surface coated with a 

 white powdery substance; antennae not reaching hind margin of pro- 

 notum; front slightly sulcate and coarsely punctured; pronotum less 

 than three-fourths as long as broad, side margins almost straight and 

 parallel for posterior three-fourths then gradually rounded to apex, 

 disc with a smooth median elevated longitudinal line extending from 

 base to apex and broadest at middle, with a shallow and equally broad 

 depression on either side, a secondary, punctured, and irregular ridge 

 outwardly bounding these, the sulci and sides coarsely and cribrately 

 punctured; elytra three times as long as pronotum and slightly broader 

 at humeri, side margins almost straight and parallel for anterior two- 

 thirds, thence suddenly narrowed and slightly sinuate to apex, the tips 

 hardly prolonged, but slightly divergent, and truncate at apex, the disc 

 with intervals 1-5 distinctly elevated, rounded, and continuous through- 

 out greater portion, intervals 7 and 9 equally elevated but frequently 

 and broadly interrupted, intervals 6, 8 and 10 less evidently elevated and 

 more interrupted, the more continuous intervals coarsely punctured at 

 irregular distances, the striae finely punctate; the underside in front 

 rather finely and sparsely punctured in median area and more coarse- 

 ly and cribrately so at sides, the abdomen with a smooth area down the 

 middle and with sides coarsely and aciculately punctured. Length 

 13 mm., breadth 4.5 mra. 



$ . Prosternum rather densely clothed with long silky white hair 

 and the last ventral deeply and broadly emarginate. 



9 . Prosternum less densely clothed and with shorter hair and the 

 last ventral with small triangular incisure 



The description given above was based upon a single male. 



INew Species of Buprestidae (Col.) from the Pacific States, by 

 Edwin C. Van Dyke, Entom. News, Vol. XXVII (1916) pp. 405-412. 



