236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Sept., '03 



Notes on Buprestidae (Coleoptera) with Descriptions 



of New Species. 

 BY HENRY SKINNER. 



See Plate X. 



During the summer we have received some interesting bee- 

 tles from Arizona containing undescribed species. Among 

 them were two new species of Tyndaris. Mr. Henry W. 

 Wenzel was under the impression that there was also some 

 new material in this genus in the U. S. National Museum. 

 Through the courtesy of Mr. E. A. Schwarz, the Honorary 

 Curator of the Coleoptera, I have been permitted to study 

 these specimens. Mr. Schwarz has also most generously 

 placed at my disposal the fine drawings made to illustrate the 

 three new species, olneya, prosopis and barbcri to which he had 

 given manuscript names. We have but one described species 

 of Tyndaris in North America, and that was described under 

 the name of cincta, by Dr. G. H. Horn, in 1885, and the type 

 is in the Horn collection, now the property of the American 

 Entomological Society. Kerremans in the Genera Insectorum 

 lists five species in the genus, one of which, cincta, is North 

 American, and the other four South American, three being 

 from Chili and one from Parana. 



Tyndaris olneyae n. sp. (Schwarz ms). 



Head gray, clothed with silvery pubescence ; antennae black. Thorax 

 gray, also with fine silvery hairs ; there is a median depressed line ex- 

 tending from base to apex ; finely and densely punctate. Elytra gray, 

 the lateral margin not markedly serrulate as in cincta ; apices ending in 

 three points ; striate, striae punctured ; elytra with silvery pubescence. 

 Underside of body and legs gray with silvery pubescence. There are 

 two orange-yellow spots on each elytron situated at about one- third of 

 the distance from the thorax to the apex of elytron. One is close to the 

 suture but not touching it, and the other on the lateral margin. One 

 specimen examined has but one such spot, the marginal one only being 

 present. This species is smaller and not as robust as cincta. Length 7 

 to 9 mm. 



Our specimens were received from Mr. C. R. Biederman, 

 and were taken at Florence, Arizona. Mr. Biederman says of 

 them " they were in one colony on dead ' cat claw ' bushes, 



