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tured than the sides ; medial space slightly impressed before and behind ; an 

 obsolete fossula each side of the middle: scutel orbiculate : elytra subequal, sha- 

 greened and punctured, punctures placed in series from the suture to near the 

 middle, with two or three entire subsutural strias ; sparse, small, polished, blackish 

 elevations; tips short, truncate, rich cupreous, slightly divaricating; epipleune 

 green ; beneath and feet golden cupreous, tinged with greenish : pectos grooved, 

 white villose anteriorly : intermediate tibiae with the tubercle on the inner side 

 prominent: venter ( <j> ) emarginate at tip. 



3. D. parumpunr.tata. Brassy-brown above, shagreened and punctured, 

 beneath dull cupreous; apex of elytra truncate. — 8 I. long, 3 1. wide. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Dicerca parumpunctata, Harris. MS. 



Body above somewhat arched, brassy-brown, shagreened, slightly glossy : head 

 shagreened, sparsely punctured, covered with prostrate hairs, slightly impressed 

 on the vertex ; labrum golden ; eyes glaucous : thorax slightly inequal ; sides 

 obtusely rounded, with the lateral margins to near the disk roughly shagreened 

 and punctured ; dorsal space polished and irregularly punctured ; a small round 

 indentation before the scutel: elytra punctate-striate, with the striae obsolete at 

 the sides and from the middle to the apex ; interstices punctured, most distinctly 

 towards the base and suture ; irregular, elevated black spots and short lines, more 

 numerous at the sides and apex than on the scutellar region ; tips abruptly nar- 

 rowed, not much elongated, truncate, with a minute tooth at the inner angle: 

 beneath pubescent, very roughly shagreened : feet cupreous glossy, roughly sha- 

 greened : pectus grooved: abdomen ( % ) emarginate at apex. 



4. D. chrysea. Dark golden above; beneath cupreous, glossy, roughly sha- 

 greened. — 7 — 8 1. long, 2-f — 3 i 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Buprestis chrysea, Melsh. Catal. 



Dark golden above : head rough with elevated black spots and irregular golden 

 rugae : labrum green : thorax somewhat roughly shagreened, each side of the 

 middle broadly and strongly indented, and with two or three large, elevated, 

 glossy black spots ; medial space indented before and behind, with the margins 

 and division of the indentations glossy, black and distantly punctured ; sides ab- 

 ruptly dilated in the middle ; posterior angles acute : scutel transverse, black : 

 elytra greenish cupreous, granulate or shagreened, with several series of large 

 punctures, and with sparse, elevated, glossy black spots; tips narrowed, short, 

 almost truncate : beneath bright cupreous, roughly punctured and rugose : pectus 

 grooved, but not deeply : epipleurae tinged with greenish: abdomen emarginate 

 in the one sex, tridentate in the other : feet bright cupreous, roughly punc- 

 tured. 



5. D. indistinda. Brassy-brown, varied with dark golden ; elytra with rows 

 of elevated black spots.— 7| 1. long, 2£ 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 

 Buprestis maculata, Melsh. Catal. 999. 



cuprea, « » 1004. 



Brassy-brown, finely shagreened and punctured : head punctured, rough with 



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