ART. 7 BTJPEESTID BEETLES FROM SIBERIA — FISHER d 



A single female of this species was collected by T. D. A. Cockerell 

 at Okeanskaja, during August, 1923. This specimen is of a uniform 

 dark brown color above, with a distinct cupreous, greenish, or 

 purplish reflection when viewed in different lights, and the upper 

 surface is immaculate, except for a very small yellow spot at the 

 apical angles of the pronotum; beneath the color is more purplish, 

 the last abdominal segment is broadly truncate and feebly sinuate 

 at apex, and on each side ornated with a large yellow spot. 



This species is larger and more elongate than Bwprestis strigosa 

 Gebler, more convex above, sides of pronotum more regularly 

 obliquely expanded from the apical angles to the base, and the elytra 

 not as strongly longitudinally costate. 



DICERCA ACUMINATA (Pallas) 



Buprestis acuminata Pallas, Icones Insectorum, 1871, p. 69, no. 10, pi. D, 

 fig. 10. 



This is another Palaearctic species which is distributed through- 

 out Europe and Siberia. Motschulsky^ records it from along the 

 banks of the Amur River as far as Kidsi. 



Two examples of this species were collected by T. D. A. Cockerell 

 at Okeanskaja during August, 1923. 



MELANOPHILA ACUMINATA (De Geer) 



Buprestis acuminata De Geer, M6m. Ins., vol. 4, 1774, p. 1.33. 



This circumpolar species is distributed over the greater part of 

 Europe, Siberia, and North America and on account of its wide dis- 

 tribution has been described under a great many different names by 

 various writers. 



This species is represented in the material examined by four exam- 

 ples, three collected by T. D. A. Cockerell along the Kudia River, 

 in the Province of Amagu, during July, 1923, and one taken along 

 the Amagu River by A. I. Lavrushin during July of the same 

 year. 



ANTHAXIA PSITTACINA Heyden 



Anlhaxia psittacina Heyden, Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschr., vol. .31, 1887, p. 

 303. 



This species was described from two examples collected at Suyfun, 

 near the mouth of the Amur River in Siberia. It is represented 

 among the material collected by T. D. A. Cockerell in Siberia during 

 August, 1923, by five specimens, two of which were taken at Okeans- 

 kaja and the other three at Kongaus. 



^Schrenk's Reisen uni Forschangen im Amur-Lande, vol. 2, ISfiO, p. 107. 



