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species, and the elytral markings are cupreous, while in fulminata 

 they are aeneous and differently arranged. In figuring marmorata 

 the pronotum is shown as being transversely impressed along base, 

 while in the description they say that the pronotum has an impres- 

 sion at the middle behind and another one on each side. Since their 

 descriptions are very deficient, these three impressions may be con- 

 nected transversely by a shallow groove, similar to some of the speci- 

 mens of auronotata^ in which case it would be transversely impressed 

 as shown in the figure. Since Castelnau and Gory had both of the 

 species before them when they described this species, I shall consider 

 them as two distinct species. No specimens have been seen by the 

 writer which would apply to the above description. 



ACTENODES FULMINATA (Schonhen) 



Buprestis fulminata ScHONHEasR, Syn. Ins., vol. 1. pt. 3, App. 1817, p. 121, 



No. 166. 

 Actenodes signata Beatjdet-Lafarge, Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, 



p. 80 ; 3 ed., 1836, p. 90. (No description.) 

 Actenodes cyanura Chevrolat, Silbermann's Rev. Ent., vol. 5, 1838, pp. 



72-73. 

 Chrysohothris fulminata Castelnau and Gory, Moii. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, 



pp. 37-38, pi. 7, fig. 52. 

 Actenodes fulminata Leng and Mutchler, Bull. Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist.. 



vol. 33, 1914, p. 430. 



Form broadly elongate, moderately convex, attenuate in front, 

 more acuminate posteriorly ; and narrower behind than in front, gla- 

 brous and shining; head and pronotum aeneous, with a strong oliva- 

 ceous and purpureous tinge; scutellum green; elytra nigro- viola- 

 ceous, with irregular transverse aeneous markings; beneath oliva- 

 ceous-green, with the tarsi and last abdominal segment cyaneous. 



Head feebly convex, front nearly flat, triangular, with a longi- 

 tudinal groove extending from near the epistom'a to vertex, the 

 groove feebly impressed on the front, but becoming very deep on 

 the vertex between the two nodules, which are broad, but not 

 strongly elevated; surface densely, irregularly and deeply punc- 

 tate, becoming strongly transversely scabrous on the anterior part ; 

 intervals nearly smooth, becoming obsoletely granulose on the occi- 

 put; epistoma feebly, broadly emargin'ate in front, witli an obso- 

 lete median tooth; eyes large, very oblique and about two times as 

 widely separated on the occiput as in au7'onotata. Pronotum strongly 

 transverse, and moderately convex, two times as wide as long, apex 

 and base about equal in width, widest at apical third ; sides broadly 

 rounded at apical third, then arcuately attenu'ate to the posterior 

 angles, which are nearly rectangular; anterior margin arcuately 

 emarginate, with an obsolete median lobe; base bisinuate, with a 

 broad, feebly rounded median lobe ; surface with a very broad longi- 



