66 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoL xxx. 



Plate VII. 



Fig. I. Last ventral segment of male P. ferrea Mels. 



Fig. 2. Same female. 



Fig. 3. (^ P. thureura Say. 



Fig. 4. 9 P- thureura Say. 



Fig. 5. (^ P. cyanipes var. calif ornica n. var. 



Fig. 6. J" P. cyanipes Say. 



Fig. 7. 5 P. cyanipes var. calif ornica n. var. 



Fig. 8. J P. cyanipes Say. 



Fig. g. Last ventral segment ($ P. montanus n. sp. 



Fig. 10. 5 -P- montanus n. sp. 



Fig. II. (^ P. bridwelli Van Dyke. 



Fig. 12. 5 F. bridwelli Van Dyke. 



Fig. 13. 5 P. debilis Lee. 



Fig. 14. J'P. fraseri n. sp. 



NOTES ON A RARE BUPRESTIS. 



By W. Knaus, 



McPiiERSON, Kansas. 



Buprestis confluenta Say, 1823. 



Buprestis confiuens Leconte. 1859. 

 Buprestis tesselata Casey, igog. 



As an example of the laconic taxonomic style of the most famous 

 early North American entomologist, Thomas Say, his description of 

 this species is given as it appears on page 60 of Say's American 

 Entomology, Vol. I, John L. Leconte Editor London Edition, Henry 

 Sothern & Co., 136 Strand, 36 Picadilly and 10 Tower Street, City, 

 1859: 



"Buprestis Confluenta \_Confluens']. — Specific character. Green, polished, 

 punctured ; elytra with confluent yellow spots. 



" Buprestis confluenta nobis, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. Ill, p. 159. 



" Desc. Body bright green, punctured ; head densely and confluently 

 punctured ; an obsolete indented longitudinal line, more distinct on the 

 vertex: antennae purplish, the basal joint rufous: thorax densely and con- 

 fluently punctured, more particularly on the anterior and lateral margins ; in 

 the middle of the disk, these punctures are somewhat sparse : scutel rounded, 

 convex: elytra striate, slightly tinged with violaceous; the striae and inter- 



