BUPRESTIl) BEETLES FROM THE MARITIME PROVINCE 



OF SIBERIA 



By W. S. Fisher 



Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department t,f Agricutiure 



The present paper is the result of a study of the Buprestid beetles 

 received from Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, and which were collected on 

 his journey through the eastern part of Siberia during July and 

 August, 1923. The material of this family collected by Professor 

 Cockerell and his associates consists of 11 species, 2 of which are 

 described as new. 



All of the species collected belong to the typical Palaearctic fauna; 

 some of them are distributed eastward over the greater part of Sibe- 

 ria and Europe, and in one case the species is circumpolar in its 

 distribution extending over the northern parts of both the Eastern 

 and Western Hemispheres. 



LAMPRA VIRGATA (Motschulsky) 



Paecilonota virgata Motschulsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 32, 

 ■ pt. 2, 1859, p. 490. 



This species was originally described from the Amur River region 

 in Siberia. Motschulsky's description is very short, but Solsky in 

 his Coleoptera of eastern Siberia^ gives a long description of this 

 species and records it as having been collected during June in the 

 vicinity of Lake Khanka, which is situated near Vladivostok, Siberia. 



This beautiful species is represented by three examples, two col- 

 lected at Vladivostok by V. Prinada, and the third example taken 

 during July 1923, hy T. D. A. Cockerell along the Kudia River, in 

 the Province of Amagu. The specimens examined vary consider- 

 ably in the number and ariangement of the violaceous spots on the 

 upper surface, and the color is more cupreous or aureous on some of 

 the specimens. 



The species resembles Lam pra f estiva Linnaeus from Europe very 

 closely, and is probably only a variety of that species. 



1 Horae Soc. Entomol. Rossicae, vol. 7, 1871, pp. 353-356 



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