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densely punctate, the punctures variable in size and irregularly 

 placed, rather densely clothed with long, erect, cinereous hairs; in- 

 tervals obsoletely granulose; first segment not grooved at middle; 

 last segment feebly sinuate at apex, with the lateral teeth obsolete 

 or variable. Prosternum rather flat, rather densely clothed with 

 long cinereous pubescence, and densely, coarsely punctate; anterior 

 margin nearly truncate; prosternal process broadly sulcate at 

 middle, parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely 

 attenuate to the apex, which is rather broadly rounded. Anterior 

 femora strongly swollen at middle ; anterior tibiae somewhat flat- 

 tened at apex, but without a large hook; anterior tarsi much 

 broader than the posterior ones. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but differs from it by having the 

 head and underside of body not as densely pubescent, last ventral 

 segment of abdomen more broadly truncate at apex, and the ante- 

 rior tarsi not distinctly broader than the posterior ones. 



Length, 11-18 mm.; width, 4.5-6.5 mm. 



Described by Fabricius (1775) from America. This species is 

 found throughout the southeastern part of North America, and its 

 distribution extends from New Jersey to Texas. The adults are 

 very constant in coloration, size, and form, and are not rare in the 

 Southern States ; the larvae are found in pine. 



Chevrolat (1867) records it from Guadeloupe in the collection of 

 Chevrolat, and from Cuba in the collections of Gundlach and Poey. 

 Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record it from Pointe a Pitre, Guade- 

 loupe, around the wharfs (Vitrac), and Gundlach (1891) reports 

 collecting it in the eastern part of Cuba, and also records it from 

 Guadeloupe and North America. Gundlach (1894) also records it 

 from Porto Rico. 



The following material has been examined. Coll. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad.: "Cuba" (Poey Coll. No. 13). Coll. S. C. Bruner: 

 Labeled " Est. Cent. Agri. de Cuba, Feb. 27," without giving any 

 definite locality. There is also a single example of this species 

 labeled No. 1630 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, which has 

 not been examined. 



BUPRESTIS STRIATA Fabricius 



Buprestis striata Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 217. — Olivier, Entom., vol. 

 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 15-16, pi. 7, fig. 77. — Nicolay and Weiss, Journ. 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 85-87. 



Ancylochira striata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Bupres- 

 tis, pp. 147-148, pi. 36, fig. 202. 



Buprestis ohscura Ca<^ey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 125. 



Male. — Elongate oval, dark coppery-brown, sometimes with an 

 obsolete aeneous reflection; beneath coppery-brown to bright cupre- 

 ous and more shining than abovt:. 



