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or brassy ( 9 ) ! thorax narrowed behind ; elytra three or four-ribbed ; tarsi green.. 

 4| 1. long, 2 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Blackish-cupreous, roughly punctured : head longitudinally wrinkled, silvery 

 (% ); brassy, granulated and with two polished frontal elevations ( <j? ); an- 

 tennae silvery ( % ) or cupreous ( 9 ) : thorax short, widest before the middle,, 

 gradually narrowed towards the base, and abruptly narrowed at apex ; punctured- 

 and transeversely wrinkled; medial groove obtuse; basal edge bisinuate : elytra* 

 transversely rugose-punctured, with three or four obsolete, raised lines; disk, 

 with two cupreous impressions ; apex bright cupreous : beneath and feet brassy 

 or cupreous, much punctured, slightly ashy-pubescent: venter emarginate ( % ), 

 rounded ( $ ) ; tarsi green. 



Anthaxia, Eschsch. 



1. A. gracilis. Slender, black; face, thorax beneath and lateral margins, 

 pectus and feet bluish-green; elytra three-ribbed. — 2§ 1- long, | 1. wide. Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Form of an Agrilus. Black, minutely granulated : head with the face bluish- 

 green, brilliant; antennae black, tinged with green : thorax almost equal, with a 

 slight indentation each side of the middle, and a profound triangular one in 

 front of the scutel ; much contracted behind, with the sides very feebly rounded ; 

 posterior angles small, acute; lateral margins broadly bluish-green : elytra con- 

 tracted in the middle, rugulose, opake, with three longitudinal, raised lines, of 

 which the middle one is only distinct : pectus and feet rugulose, bluish-green : 

 abdomen bluish-brassy, minutely punctured : tarsi ochraceous. 



2. A. scoriacea. Cyaneous ; thorax each side of the middle with a double 

 impression. — 2| 1. long, ^ 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Buprestis caerulea, Melsh. Catal. 



Cyaneous, very finely wrinkled : head finely reticulate, with a shallow oblong 

 frontal indentation, each side of the same with a small, round, shallow impres- 

 sion ; antennae brassy-black; eyes black ; thorax with the sides rounded ; a trans- 

 verse impression each side of the middle, with the area of hind angles deeply 

 indented; a punctiform impression in front of the scutel ; elytra somewhat in- 

 equal : feet and beneath black, glossy ; tibias and tarsi tinted with greenish. 



Trachys tessellata. Black, elytra tesselated with white. Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 

 ii. 218, 1. The 9 is smaller than the % with the elytra dusky-purple, tinged 

 with steel-blue, apex cupreous, varied with pale ferruginous ; beneath glossy 

 black, with the apex of the abdomen rounded. It is the Buprestis serosa, Melsh. 

 Catal. 



Eucnemidsee. 

 Melasis, Fabr. 



M. pedinicornis. Blackish, or dark reddish-brown, opake ; thorax scabrous- 

 3 — 4 1. long, 1 — 1| 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Melasis pedinicornis, Norwich, Dej. Cat. 



Blackish, or dark reddish-brown, punctured, pubescent : head densely punc- 

 tured, with a distinct but obtuse frontal groove ; antennae and palpi, color of the 



