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this respect resembling Mormon. I do not know that the latter species 

 has ever occurred in the Carolinas, and suspect that the form of the 

 clypeus is erroneously described, and if so, the synonymy is with 

 splendens. 



BUPRESTID^E. 



GYASCUTIJS, Lee. 

 G. ealil\>riiicus, n. sp. — Oblong, subcylindrical, gradually narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, color bronze with slight seneo-cupreous lustre. Front slightly convex, 

 densely and coarsely punctured, epistoma broadly eniarginate, antennal ridges 

 short. Antennae shorter than the head and thorax, serrate, terminal joint 

 obtuse at tip. Thorax slightly broader than long, cylindrical, sides slightly 

 arcuate in front, feebly sinuate at basal half which is sub-acutely margined, 

 hind angles sub-acute posteriorly; apex truncate, base feebly bisinuate and 

 at middle subtruncate; disc moderately convex, coarsely and deeply but not 

 densely punctured. Scutellum semicircular, nearly smooth. Elytra subcylin- 

 drical, parallel, gradually narrowed at apical third, margin near apex finely 

 serrate, apex obtuse, surface densely punctured and with traces of striiB at the 

 sides and apex. Body beneath coarsely but not densely punctured and with a 

 few short cinereous hairs. Posterior tarsi with the first joint feebly compressed 

 and not greatly longer than the second. Length .36— .48 inch ; 9 — 12 mm. 



Occurs in the San Joaquin Valley, California. I have seen very 

 many specimens in the museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 



This species has the form of a small Latipalpis. The ridges above 

 the antennae are much shorter than in any of our other species, and 

 the antennal cavities approach the form seen in Psiloptera . The tarsi 

 have shown already considerable variation from the very long first joint 

 of the hinder tarsi in three of the species to that in which the first 

 joint is barely longer than the second (^cselatus) by which another 

 approach is made to the Psllopterides. Traces of a false joint at the 

 end of the eleventh occur in the antennae excepting in californicus and 

 sphenicus in which the eleventh joint is simply obtuse as in Psiloptera. 

 In Latipalpis the last joint is abruptly truncate and the antennae 

 appear to have lost a joint by fracture. No very decided sexual difi'er- 

 ences occur in the three genera above named. 



CHALCOPHORA, Sol. 

 C Fulleri, n. sp. — Form oblong, depressed, color dark bronze feebly 

 shining and sparsely pubescent in patches. Head coarsely punctured, deeply 

 longitudinally grooved. Thorax broader than long, sides obtusely angulate at 

 middle, in front oblique, behind subparallel, feebly sinuate in front of hind 

 angles which are moderately prominent, apex feebly emarginate, base bisinuate, 

 disc with broad vague channel at middle and a moderately deep longitudinal 

 impression on each side, surface coarsely rugulose at the sides, smoother at 

 middle. Elytra oblong, depressed, parallel, apical third gradually narrowed 

 and moderately serrate, apex obtuse, surface with four vague nervures with 

 thickened spaces which surround large but very vague fovea; nervures feebly 

 shining intervals opaque, rugulose sparsely punctured and with very short 



