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This species was described by Herbst (1801) from America. It 

 is a southern species and its distribution extends along the Southern 

 Atlantic and Gulf States, from North Carolina to Texas, and in 

 some parts of the South the larvae becomes quite injurious to the 

 long leaf pine {Pinus palustris Miller). The admission of the 

 species in the present paper is based on a single specimen in the 

 Coll. U. S. National Museum, labeled "Havana, Cuba (Roig),'' 

 and it is just possible that this specimen emerged from pine lumber 

 shipped from the Southern States. 



BUPRESTIS DECORA Fabricius 



Buprestis decora Fakricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 217. — Olivier, Entom., 

 vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, p. 18, pi. 8, fig. 82.— Cheveolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 578 (separates, p. 154). — Fleutiaux 

 and SALLfi, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, p. 405 (separates,, 

 p. 55). — GuNDLACH, Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 

 1891, p. 161, no. 1630.— NicoLAY and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 

 vol. 26, 1918, pp. 88-89. 



Ancylochira decora Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Bu- 

 prestis, pp. 145-146, pi. 36, fig. 199. — Gundlach, An. Soc. Espan. Hist. 

 Nat., ser. 2, vol. 22, 1894, p. 623. 



Male. — Narrow elongate; head and pronotum green, with the re- 

 liefs more or less violaceous or cupreous; elytra green, occasionally 

 with distinct median indigo-blue vittae, and the suture and lateral 

 margins always cupreous; beneath green, with a cupreous reflection. 



Head feebly convex, with a distinct longitudinal carina on the 

 occiput; surface very coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures 

 confluent and forming longitudinal rugae on the front, and rather 

 densely clothed with long erect cinereous hairs; epistoma broadly 

 but feebly arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum not quite two 

 times as wide as long, widest at base, and slightly narrower in front 

 than behind; sides feebly obliquely attenuate from base to apical 

 angles; posterior angles acute and slightly projecting; anterior mar- 

 gin feebly arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median 

 lobe ; disk sometimes with an obsolete median sulcus or smooth longi- 

 tudinal area; surface deeply and densely punctate, the punctures 

 very coarse, irregularly placed, and becoming somewhat confluent 

 at the sides. Scutellum oval, somewhat truncate in front. Elytra 

 a little wider than pronotum at base, slightly dilated behind the 

 humeri, rather strongly sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuately 

 attenuate to the tips, which are rather broadly truncate and biden- 

 tate; surface feebly striato-punctate, the striae feebly impressed 

 and becoming obsolete at sides and toward apex, the striae punc- 

 tures very coarse, intermixed with smaller ones of the same size 

 as those on the intervals; intervals flat and very densely punctate, 

 the punctures coarse, deep, irregularly placed, and becoming con- 

 fluent at sides and apex. Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather 



