NOFiTH AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 
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i»YROC'IIKOA Geoff. 
I*, calif'oriiica ii. sp. — Black, subopaque, thorax and sciitelluni orange- 
yellow. the former with a darker central cloud : anteniiie black, acutely serrate I 
head shining, sparsely punctate, deeply transversely impressed between the eyes ; 
thorax transversely oval, median line impressed, terminating in an oval depres- 
sion posteriorly, surface sparsely punctate, but with an area of dense coarse 
punctures each side of the oval depression, surface clothed with fine silken pu- 
bescence: elytra densely punctate scabrous, vaguely striate, clothed with short 
fine black pubescence ; body beneath very black, shining, moderately closely 
punctate; legs and coxse black. Length 13 mm. ; .52 inch. 
Very distinct from any of our species by the entirely black color, 
the thorax and scutelluin alone orange-yellow. 
One specimen 9 > collected by Mr. D. W. Coqnillett near Los 
Angeles, Cal. 
BUPRESTID.E. 
Pcecilonota debilis Lee. An examination of the type of this insect 
shows it to be merely a female, rather poorly developed of F. cyanipes. 
In the female of the latter when of full development there is a feeble 
emargination of the last ventral segment. In the debilis the segment 
is nearly entire. 
DYSTAXIA Lee. 
The males of D. Murrayi Lee., the only species known, have the 
last ventral deeply and acutely triangularly emarginate. The an- 
teniue are slender and extend to a point opposite the first ventral 
suture, the female has the last ventral segment broadly rounded 
and entire, the antenme shorter, not i-eaching beyond the end of the 
metasternum. 
In mature specimens the body above is of an entirely uniform 
malachite green, with but feeble trace of pubescence. 
Before attaining maturity the specimens are dark bronze, with a 
coppery tinge, and the gray pubescence is more consi)icuous. On a 
specimen of this kind is founded D. Lecontei Thoms. 
SCHIZOPITS Lee. 
In the typical species of this genus, S. Icefus Lee., the sexes differ 
in a more striking manner. In the male the under side of the body, 
head and thorax, all the femora and the first two joints of the an- 
tennie are bluish submetallic. The elytra are orange-red, with a 
narrow sutural edge blue. Probably when quite recent the elytra 
are brighter red. The tibise, tarsi and anteniUB, are I'ufo-testaceous. 
