June, 1918.] NiCOLAY & WeISS : BUPRESTIS IN NORTH AMERICA. 77 



Tertiary species from Sieblos described by Heyden under the name 

 of B. scnccta." Wickham (Bull. ]Mus. Comp. Zool.. vol. LVIII, no. 

 11) describes two Miocene species from Florissant, Col., B. fiorissan- 

 tensis and B. scnddcri. 



According to Kerremans, the genus Bnprcstis contains 51 species, 

 scattered over all of the northern hemisphere. Temperate Europe, 

 Siberia, and the United States furnish a large number and two species 



Fig I. Work of Buprestis upricaiis in long leaf pine wood (reduced). 

 (After H. E. Burke in U. S. Dept. Agric. Yearbook, 1909.) 



Fig. 2. Buprestis apricans larva. A, dorsal view; B, de.xtral view; C, 

 ventral view. (After H. E. Burke in Bull. 437, U. S. Dept. Agric. Bur. Ent.) 



extend as far south as the equator. In their catalog of " The Coleop- 

 tera of Europe" (1906), Heyden, Reitter and Weise list 13 species, 

 6 varieties and 7 aberrations and Wollaston in his " Coleoptera At- 

 lantidum" lists one species {B. hertheloti) from the Madeiras, 

 Salvages and Canaries, this being exceedingly rare. Several speci- 

 mens were taken in spider webs in the remote island of Hierro of 

 the Canary Group. There is no representative of the genus in Great 

 Britain. 



