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striae arranged in pairs and more or less evident throughout the width ; 

 under surface rather finely but deeply, closely cribrate, the abdomen 

 very finely punctate, sloping upward posteriorly. Length 7.9-9.8 mm. ; 

 width 2.5-3.1 mm. California (San Diego Co., — Poway). 



cupreofusca n. sp. 



The following species is provisionally included : — 



Form oblong, subcylindric, gradually narrowed posteriorly, color bronze 

 with slight aeneo-cupreous lustre; front slightly convex, densely and 

 coarsely punctured; epistoma broadly emarginate, the antennal ridges 

 short; antennae shorter than the head and prothorax, serrate, the ter- 

 minal joint obtuse at tip; prothorax slightly broader than long, cylin- 

 dric, the sides slightly arcuate in front, feebly sinuate at basal half, 

 which is subacutely margined, the hind angles subacute posteriorly; 

 apex truncate, the base bisinuate and at middle subtruncate; surface 

 moderately convex, coarsely and deeply but not densely punctate; 

 scutellum semicircular, nearly smooth; elytra subcylindric, parallel, 

 gradually narrowed at apical third, the margin near the apex finely 

 serrate, the apex obtuse; surface densely punctate and with traces of 

 striae at the sides and apex; under surface coarsely but not densely 

 punctured and with a few short cinereous hairs; posterior tarsi with the 

 first joint feebly compressed and not greatly longer than the second. 

 Length 9.0-12.0 mm. California (San Joaquin Valley). [=Gyas- 

 cutus californicus Horn] californica Horn 



Among the remarks following the description of californica, Dr. 

 Horn states, in referring to the species of Gyascutus, that " traces of a 

 false joint at the end of the eleventh occur in the antennae, excepting in 

 californicus and sphenicus, in which the eleventh joint is simply ob- 

 tuse as in Psiloptera. " The form of the eleventh joint in californica 

 must therefore depart very radically from that characterizing cupreo- 

 fusca, and the allusion to an obtuse eleventh joint in sphenicus {Hip- 

 pomelas) refers, as I have stated under that genas, to the male alone. 



Cinyra Lap.-Gory. 



The type of this genus is stated, in the preceding table of genera, to 

 be the Brazilian Buprestis elongata, of Laporte and Gory, but the diag- 

 nosis there given is drawn from our small aberrant Dicerca gracilipes, 

 of Melsheimer, or more accurately from a very similar species described 

 below under the name macilenta, and the corresponding characters 

 of elongata are unknown to me. So there is a possibility, which 

 amounts almost to a certainty, when we consider the very different 

 style of sculpture of gracilipes, that the latter may constitute a different 

 genus from the true Cinyra, where it was first placed by LeConte; 



