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series of this insect and that all of the various species from the 

 Pacific Coast, erected on size, color and individual variations are 

 nothing but extreme forms. From one female he secured a series 

 showing an extensive enough variation in size, shape and color rang- 

 ing from entirely green with no cupreous markings to entirely cupre- 

 ous, to warrant the above synonymy. Aurulenta is very common 

 along the Pacific Coast and one of our most beautiful buprestids. 



Mr. Gilbert Arrow states that there are no European specimens 

 of this species in the British Museum and knows of no reason for 

 supposing that it occurs in Europe. Kerremans also treats it as a 

 strictly American insect. This will make B. laitta of Le Conte a 

 synonym and correct the present mistaken idea that aurulenta is Euro- 

 pean. Van Dyke states that the form vUlosa described by Le Conte 

 is identical with aurulenta except for its more pubescent prosternum 

 which character is very variable and by means warrants the erec- 

 tion of a species. 



Buprestis adjecta (Le Conte), 54-17. 



brcvis Casey, 09-118. 



intricata Casey, 09-1 iS. 



Stout, more oval than preceding. Elytra entirely deep or light green 

 with a faint brassy luster ; suture and lateral margins often narrowly 

 cuprescent ; tips bidentate, elytral costs intermediately elevated, convex, their 

 summits polished and not punctate. Antenna dark, more or less metallic. 

 Head and pronotum green, often with a brassy tinge, densely punctate, head 

 with a distinct median sulcus, pronotum not, to distinctly impressed along 

 median line, broadly rounded at sides. Beneath metallic with a distinct 

 cupreous shine, prosternum and abdomen coarsely and densely punctate, 

 scarcely truncate. Length 13-1S mm. 



Records. — Gallinas Canon (Snow) ; New Mexico. Idaho. Tahoe 

 Tavern, July 10; Tallac, elevation 6300 ft., July 16 (Reynolds) : 

 Weed, July 20 (Chamberlin) ; Sierra Nevada Mts. ; California. Ft. 

 Klamath; Oregon (Packard), (Chamberlin), Oregon. Washing- 

 ton (Leng Coll.). Nevada. Bullion Peak, August (Oslar) ; Mani- 

 tou, August; Colorado Springs (Wheeler); Colorado. National 

 Park; Wyoming. Beaver Foot Range Rocky Mts. (Wenman) ; 

 Peachland, B. C, August; Field, B. C, August l (Brown); Van- 

 couver; Canada. Ohau, Honolulu, one specimen on flowers (Black- 

 burn & Sharp) ; H. I. Occurs from Washington to Tulare County, 

 California. (Chamberlin.) Probably breeds in yellow, Jeffrey and 

 lodge pole pine. (Chamberlin.) 



