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7. B. VIRIDICORNIS. — Head and tliorax rcd-coppcry ; antcnnse 

 green ; elytra obscure, entire. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body somewhat depressed : head retieuhitc, red-coppery : eyes 

 rather hirge ; antenna) green : thorax transversely indented each 

 side behind the middle ; red-cupreous, reticulated ; posterior 

 edge rectilinear : scutel triangular : elytra obscure or slightly 

 brassy, slightly rugose, destitute of striae, rounded at tip, entire 

 or obsoletely serrated : beneath dark brassy, brilliant ; tail 

 rounded, entire. 



Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch. 



[Belongs to Anthaxia. — Lec] [163] 



8. B. (iEMlNATA. — Greenish, scabrous; thorax sub-inequal ; 

 elytra entire, indented at base. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



litipnstis viridis Melsh. Catal. 



Body greenish or dull cupreous, scabrous : head densely punc- 

 tured ; an indented lino on the vertex : antennae blackish-green : 

 thorax sub-ine({ual; a double obsolete indented spot placed longi- 

 tudinally on the back, and a lateral oblique one ; a carinate line 

 at base near the posterior angles, which are acute ; posterior edge 

 sinuate ; surface with numerous, somewhat irregular, transverse 

 slightly elevated, abbreviated, confluent lines : elytra scabrous, 

 greenish, tinged with violaceous. 



Length more than" one-fifth of an inch. 



The B. viridis of Melsheimer is the same with this or a mere 

 variety. I have been under the necessity of changing the name, 

 his being already occupied. 



[A species of Ac/riliis. — Lec.] 



9. B. DIVARICATA. — Grccnish-cnprcous above, beneath cu- 

 preous ; elytra attenuated and divergent at tip. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Head numerously and confluently punctured : mandibles black : 

 eyes pale yellow, or brownish, with a black orbit, oval : thorax 

 confluently punctured, subinecjual, indented before the scutel : 

 scutel orbicular, disk impre.s.sed ; elytra striate, confluently punc- 

 tured, and with some elevated blackish, abbreviated lines : tips 

 narrowed, elongated, divergent ; at the termination truncate, and 

 1823.] 



