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densely punctate; prosternal process sulcate at middle, parallel to 

 behind the anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the 

 apex, which is obtusely rounded. Femora similar on all legs; ante- 

 rior tibiae flattened at apex, but without a hook; anterior tarsi not 

 distinctly broader than posterior ones. 



Female. — The sexes show very few external structural differences, 

 the females are usually larger, more robust and the abdomen beneath 

 not quite as densely pubescent. 



Length, 13-20 mm.; width, 5-7.5 mm. 



Originally described by Linnaeus (1767) from North America. It 

 is one of the most beautiful Buprestids and is very common along the 

 Pacific coast, the distribution extending from British Columbia to 

 southern California and eastward to the Rocky Mountains. It is a 

 very variable species, both in color and size, and having caused con- 

 siderable synonymy. The larvae live in Douglas fir, western red 

 cedar, and various species of pines. 



I have not seen any specimens from the West Indies, but Fleutiaux 

 and Salle (1890) report it from Guadeloupe. If their identification 

 is correct, it was probably introduced in lumber from the Western 

 States, as the species is not found in the eastern part of the United 

 States. 



BUPRESTIS LINEATA Fabricius 



Buprestis lineata Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, pp. 217-218. — Olivier, Entom., 

 vol, 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 28-29, pi. 8, fig. 80.— Chevbolat, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, pp. 577-578 (separates pp. 153-154). — 

 Fleutiaux and Salle, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, p. 405 

 (separate p. 55). — Gundlach, Contribucion k la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, 

 pt. 5, 1891, pp. 160-161, no. 1416.— Nicolay and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc. vol. 26, 1918, pp. 94-95, pi. 1, figs. 3-4.— Stahl, Fauna de 

 Puerto Rico, 1882, p. 171. 



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

 tis, pp. 143-144, pi. 35, fig. 196.— Gundlach, Ann. Soc. Ent. Espan., 

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



Male. — Elongate oval ; head aeneous, the front more or less fulvous, 

 and usually enclosing two aeneous spots ; pronotum aeneous, with the 

 sides brick-red or fulvous; elytra piceous with a bluish or greenish 

 tinge, and each elytron with two more or less connected brick-red or 

 fulvous vittae, which, although rarely wanting, are never broken up 

 into distinct spots; beneath aeneous, somewhat cupreous, the ante- 

 rior part of presternum and last ventral segment more or less marked 

 with fulvous. 



Head flat, with a feeble longitudinal carina on occiput; surface 

 coarsely and irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with incon- 

 spicuous hairs; intervals smooth and subopaque; epistoma broadly 

 arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum about two times as wide 



