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margin of the tibia; inner, front edge of tibia sinuate; middle tibia arcuate, 

 dilated on the inner edge from beyond the middle to the tip, sinuate before 

 the tip ; posterior tibia slightly arcuate ; last ventral broadly semi-circularly 

 emarginate, last dorsal sparsely and finely punctate, nearly smooth at middle, 

 acutely and deeply emarginate. 



Female. — Beneath sparsely hairy, punctuation more coarse ; anterior tibia 

 arcuate, gradually thickened to tip, middle very slightly arcuate, slightly 

 thicker at tip, posterior straight ; last ventral more densely punctured, emargi- 

 nation rather deep but narrow, ventral callosities more prominent, last dorsal 

 more closely and coarsely pimctured, with a slight notch. 



This species is very distinct in the pecuHar formation of the tooth 

 of the fore tibia which is much more acute and prominent than any- 

 thing I have seen in this genus. The correct shape of the tooth can 

 only be seen when the tibia is straightened so that the inner face 

 is exposed. The species resembles dentipes in the testaceous areas 

 of the outer joints of the antennae, but are smaller than in that species. 

 The fore tibia is also somewhat similar in dentipes, but the strong 

 tooth is lacking on the small oblique ridge of the anterior tibia. The 

 middle tibia is dilated in a similar manner but the dilation is less 

 abrupt in verdigripennis. In sculpture and to a less extent, in form, 

 it resembles scabripennis but it is more convex and in bulk nearly 

 twice that species. The majority of the specimens seen were green 

 but my series show a perfect gradation from green to dark bronze. 



I have seen two green females in the LeConte collection at Cam- 

 bridge, one of which, labelled " Me.," is much like the type, and the 

 other, labelled " H. B.," is smaller (12 mm.). There was a green 

 female in the collection of Roland Hayward at Cambridge, placed in 

 the series of dentipes and labelled " Me." A green male which was 

 placed in the general collection in the series of scabripennis, is prob- 

 ably the specimen referred to by Dr. Horn in his monograph on page 

 89. It is marked " Ex col. H. G. Hubbard," with no locality. There 

 is also a female specimen in the collection of Frederick Blanchard, 

 taken at Tyngsboro, Mass., July 12, 1896. 



Seven males and one female were taken at Wales, Maine, July 

 23, 1908, in a clearing where large hemlocks were being cut and 

 peeled. There were also many beeches and other hard woods in ex- 

 cess of the hemlocks. The specimens were resting on the trunks 

 of the beeches at the edges of the clearing in the hot sun and were 

 rather difficult to capture. 



The following distribution of the specimens has been made : the 



