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Bupuestis, Linn. 



B. inconalans. Black, punctured : elytra striate, maculate with fulvous. — 8 

 I. long, 3^ 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Blaek above: head confertly and profoundly punctured, slightly longitudinally 

 indented on the cranium; a fulvous spot on the inner margin of the eyes; la- 

 brum and mouth yellow-testaceous: thorax punctured, punctures numerous and 

 profound, towards the lateral margins confluent; dorsal space narrow, im- 

 punctured ; base sinuous ; posterior angles slightly fulvous : scutellum subcordate : 

 elytra striate, strife finely punctured, the interstices with series of profound punc- 

 tures ; five or six irregular, fulvous spots on each elytrum ; tips obtusely rounded, 

 almost truncate, with a minute spine at the inner angle: beneath dark greenish- 

 brassy, rugosely punctured : abdomen, terminal segment with a fulvous spot 

 each side at base, two similar ones on the middle of the tip of the postpectus, 

 and a paler one each side on the anterior margin of the antepectus. Varies 

 much in the number, shape and disposition of the spots. It is closely allied to 

 B. lincata, Fabr,, and may perhaps be a variety of that species, 



Melanofhila, Eschsch. 



1. M. xneola. Blackish-brassy, finely and densely shagreened. — 3 1. long, 

 1| 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Dark-brassy above, confertly shagreened or wrinkled : head cupreous, brilliant, 

 finely punctured and wrinkled : thorax finely and densely shagreened, with the 

 base bisinuous: elytra slightly widest behind the middle, finely and densely 

 shagreened, and indented on the basal margin, indentation profound near the 

 the humerus, and crossing the base of the thorax near the posterior angle; apex 

 rounded : beneath and feet dark greenish brassy, shining, finely and confertly 

 punctured. 



2. M. metallica. Brassy-brown, finely shagreened ; thorax with two trans- 

 verse impressions each side of the middle. — 2^ 1 long, 1£ 1. wide. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Brassy-brown, finely shagreened ; head feebly indented before the front ; eyes 

 brown; thorax transverse ; subquadrate; a double transverse impression each 

 side of the middle; posterior angles depressed; sometimes blackish-brassy ; apex 

 rounded ; beneath and feet dark brassy, with a dark green reflection, finely and 

 confertly punctured. 



Chrysojjothius, Eschsch. 



1. C. calcarata. Dusky cupreous; elytra with a longitudinal elevated su- 

 tural line ; thorax with an entire dorsal groove. — 5 1. long, 2 1. wide. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Chrysobothris calcarata, Harris MS. 



Dull cupreous and densely punctured above; head rough, brassy ; antennas 

 blackish ; thorax inequal, rugosely punctured, grooved in the middle ; sides 

 slightly contracted behind, almost rectilinear; basal edge strongly bisinuate: 

 elytra finely and densely punctured ; each elytrum with a profound double basal 



