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bloom easily lost in poison jar or capsule, but which may be 

 preserved by very dry killing and immediate mounting. Nearljy 

 all specimens are wide and dull blackish, but a rare winter 

 form is narrow and coppery. 



Dicerca spreta Gory= americana Hbst. 



Late winter under loose bark of large deciduous trees. Rare. 



Dicerca punctulata Sch. 



In early November, very rarely among needles of young 

 pines ; in December, under pine straw or at base of living lob- 

 lolly pines or in shaggy bark of living long leaf pines. The new 

 sub-species pinorum, -Casey, occurs with punctulata and is dis- 

 tinguished by connected thoracic striae, wider elytra, and 

 coarser ventral punctures. Both forms are dull reddish brown 

 with whitish bloom. 



Buprestis rufipes Oliv. 



One specimen vi~3O-'o5 flew to person at edge of wood. One 

 specimen sent from ten miles west. Two right wings. 



Buprestis lineata Fab. 



June to late July on blasted pines, occasionally on pine logs. 



Buprestis fasciata Fab. 

 Very rare, in lowlands July to late August. 



Buprestis striata Fab. 



October 27 and November 22, split out fresh imagines from 

 pitch pine cordwood, at the latter date also some pupae and 

 larvae; from late March to early April, among needles of 

 young long-leaf pines, probably feeding; mid-April to early 

 May, rather active and often above reach on denuded trunks of 

 blasted pines where they mate and oviposit. 



Buprestis decora Fab. 



Larva and imagines split out of rotted pine railway ties in 

 late October; in December, from warmth of woodbox may 

 leave its fuel home; from mid-March to early May, among 

 needles of young long-leaf pines, probably feeding ; in May, on 

 denuded trunks of dead and semi-decadent pines ; an occasional 

 stray specimen in June. 



Note. Striata and decora remain in the wood as imagines 

 from late October to spring, decora emerging about March 



