62 Journal New York Entomological Society. tVoL xxx. 



is the opinion of the writer that a species will not stand with the 

 majority of workers. P. cupripcs Casey can not be separated from 

 P. cyanipcs Say with any degree of certainty and therefore should be 

 considered a synonym of the latter. 



Poecilonota parviceps Casey.i 



The description of parviceps is evidently drawn up from a large 

 female and no definite characters are given to distinguish it from 

 P. cyanipcs. 



PcBcilonota bridwelli Van Dyke.2 Plate V, figs. 4 and 5. 



" Elongate-oval, subdepressed ; brassy-green with the exception of the 

 antennse and tarsal joints which show a cupreous tint; the front and pro- 

 sternum moderately densely clothed with long white hair, the surface else- 

 where including the pronotum and elytra more sparsely clothed and with 

 shorter and more depressed pile ; the depressed areas above and the greater 

 portion of the under surface coated with a white powdery substance; antennae 

 not reaching hind margin of pronotum ; front slightly sulcate and coarsely 

 punctured; pronotum less than three fourths as long as broad, side margins 

 almost straight and parallel for posterior three fourths then gradually rounded 

 to apex, disc with smooth median elevated longitudinal line extending from 

 base to apex and broadest at middle, with a shallow and equally broad depres- 

 sion on either side, a secondary, punctured, and irregular ridge outwardly 

 bounding these, the sulci and sides coarsely and cribrately punctured ; elytra 

 three times as long as pronotum and slightly broader at humeri, side mar- 

 gins almost straight and parallel for anterior two thirds, thence suddenly 

 narrowed and slightly sinuate at apex, the tips hardly prolonged, but slightly 

 divergent, and truncate at apex, the disc with intervals 1—5 distinctly elevated, 

 rounded, and continuous throughout greater portion, intervals 7 and 9 equally 

 elevated but frequently and broadly interrupted, intervals 6, 8 and 10 less 

 evidently elevated and more interrupted, the more continuous intervals coarsely 

 punctured at irregular distances, the striae finely punctate ; the underside in 

 front rather finely and sparsely punctured in median area and more coarsely 

 and cribrately so at sides, the abdomen with a smooth area down the middle 

 and with sides coarsely and aciculately punctured. Length 13 mm.; breadth 

 4.5 mm." 



" (^. Prosternum rather densely clothed with long silky white hair and the 

 last ventral (Plate VII, fig. u) deeply and broadly emarginate." 



" 5. Prosternum less densely clothed and with shorter hair and the last 

 ventral (Plate VII, fig. 12) with small triangular incisure." 



1 Casey, Studies in American Buprestidae, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., Vol. 

 XI, pp. 168—169, 1909. 



2 1918, Van Dyke, New Species of Buprestidje, etc., Ent. News, XXIX, 

 P- 53- 



