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wrinkles and sparse polished elevations ; sparsely clothed with fine short, cine- 

 reous hairs ; eyes blackish, varied with pale brown : thorax almost equal, with 

 the sides subrectilinear, slightly rounded before the middle; posterior edge sub- 

 bisinuate ; surface, punctured and polished in the middle, punctured and sha- 

 greened towards the sides : a punctiform impression in front of the scutel, an- 

 obsolete oblong one behind the middle of the anterior margin : elytra finely sha- 

 greened, with three or four widely interrupted, elevated, polished black lines, 

 interruptions dull golden and roughly punctured ; tips narrowed, short, bidentate: 

 beneath shining, cupreous, roughly punctured : pectus grooved and ashy pilose 

 in the middle : abdomen emarginate at tip in the one sex and tridentate in the 

 other: feet dull cupreous, punctured. 



6. D. moliior. Dull brassy, bright cupreous beneath ; elytra with numerous, 

 irregular, polished elevations; a transverse glabrous line between the eyes. — 7^ 

 1. long, 3 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Dull brassy above, frequently farinaceous : head uneven, with glabrous eleva- 

 tions ; a somewhat angular transverse elevated glabrous line between the eyes ; 

 cranium rugosely punctured : thorax finely shagreened, with a slight dorsal 

 groove, the margins of which are glabrous, black and remotely punctured ; an 

 elevated longitudinal glabrous line each side of the dorsal groove, and many irre- 

 gular elevations towards the lateral margins and posterior angles ; sides, a little 

 before the middle, strongly dilated and deflexed: elytra finely shagreened, with 

 numerous irregular, elevated black lines and spots ; tips narrowed, strongly bi- 

 dentate : feet and beneath bright cupreous, roughly punctured : pectus grooved, 

 but not deeply. 



7. D. impressifrons. Brassy-brown ; front concave ; elytra punctate-striate, 

 with the tips bidentate. — 8 1. long, 4 I. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Buprestis amea, Melsh. Catal. 



Head shagreened, concave, with a transverse, raised, glabrous cranial line ; dull 

 cupreous or brassy : thorax inequal, shagreened or rugosely punctured ; polished 

 and punctured in the middle, with a row of three or four elevated, polished, black 

 spots each side between the middle and submargin ; a profound triangular im- 

 pression in front of the scutel, and a very shallow oblong one behind the middle 

 of the anterior margin ; color of the head : scutellum small, linear, transverse : 

 elytra punctate-striate, punctures large, deeply impressed, the interstices finely 

 shagreened ; color of the thorax, with small, sparse, elevated, sublinear, polished 

 black spots ; tips short, bidentate : beneath and feet dull cupreous, rugosely 

 punctured: abdomen at apex emarginate ( $ ), tridentato (9): pectus 

 grooved. 



8. D.ferrea. Brassy-brown above, profoundly rugose-punctured ; thorax with 

 a glossy dorsal line. — 7 1. long, 2| 1. wide. Virginia. 



Brassy-brown above : head slightly impressed, rugosely punctured ; eyes yel- 

 lowish-brown : thorax equal, confertly rugose-punctured ; medial space glossy, 

 black, each side of which, at the anterior margin, with a small black, polished 

 spot, and a similar one each side, at the posterior margin ; posterior angles recti- 



