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represent consular is a species not very common in the eastern States; 

 the description of Laporte de Castelnau and Gory is evidently taken 

 from an unusually large female, but the language " elytres tres-epi- 

 neuses ^ I'extremite" is not strictly true of any example of the con- 

 sularis group coming under my observation. The drawing also 

 shows that the elytra are more prolonged at tip than in any that I have 

 seen. 



Elongata, of the above table, is evidently allied to the Mexican 

 variegata, differing in the arrangement of the elytral spots, in its more 

 obscure coloration, and, more especially, in its much more strongly 

 punctured pronotum; it is also allied to catoxantha Lap.-Gory, dif- 

 fering essentially in having the elytral vitta proceed from the humeral 

 angles and not from the "milieu de leur base." The names dilatata 

 and crenaia Mots., (Ancylocheira) , quoted by LeConte (Proc. Ac. 

 Phil., 1873, P- 33^)^ appear to be unpublished; at any rate, I have 

 carefully searched through four large volumes of Motschulsky's 

 almost complete octavo papers without being able to find them, and 

 they do not appear in the Munich Catalogue or in the special catalogue 

 of the Buprestidas by Kerremans. Ornata, of Walker, is wholly unrec- 

 ognizable but may be a subspecies of the very insufficiently described 

 langi, of Mannerheim. There can be no doubt whatever of the reality 

 of many species allied both to langi and gibbsi, although the pale 

 antenna? of the latter constitute a very exceptional character. Langi 

 is probably a local species and the common California form, with 

 broadly sinuato-truncate and acutely bidentate elytral apices, named 

 crenata in the table, is undoubtedly different. 



The species described by Harris nndcv ihervdiVCids Buprestis gcrafiii 

 and charaderistica, belong respectively to the genera Acma-odcra and 

 Chrysohothris. Buprestis aurulenta, of Linne, which iias gi\cn rise 

 to so much trouble and uncertainty, having been identified with 

 decora, lauta and hnpedita, of the following subgenera, has seemingly 

 at length found a definite resting place as a European species and may 

 therefore be removed from our lists. 



Subgenus Cypriacis nov. 



The body here becomes, as a rule, rather more oblong, with the pro- 

 thorax somewhat less trapezoidal than in Buprestis proper, and the 



