88 Journal New York Entomological Society, ["^'o'- xxvi. 



Buprestis apiicans Hcrbst, 01-125. 



nigricornis (Sturm), 26-105. 



bosci Castelnau & Gory, 37-146. 



cribripennis Casey, 09-127. 



Oblong, oval. Elytra uniform dull cupreous brown, punctatc-striate. 

 Antennse dark, first two segments bronzed. Head and pronotum coarsely 

 densely and confluently punctate. Sides of pronotum slightly arcuate. Ven- 

 tral surface cupreous with greenish reflections, presternum coarsely and 

 densely, abdomen more finely and distinctly punctate. Tip of abdomen trun- 

 cate and subsinuate in male, broadly rounded in female. Length 16-23 mm. 



Records. — Southern Pines, April 25, May 9 (Manee) ; North 

 Carolina. Grand Bay; Alabama. South Carolina. Vowell's 

 Mill (Coverdale) ; Louisiana. Jacksonville, beaten from pine sap- 

 lings (Dury) ; Deep Lake, April 12 (Davis) ; Florida. Tyler County; 

 Texas. Billy's Is., Okefinokee Swamp (Bradley) ; Georgia. Late 

 March to early April among needles of young long leaf pines, prob- 

 ably feeding; mid-xA.pril to mid-May on dead blaze of big, living long- 

 leaf pines. Oviposits exclusively in cracks of dry dead spots or 

 blazes of large living long leaf pines. (Manee.) Known as the 

 flat-headed turpentine heartwood borer. Lijures longleaf pine of 

 Southern States when boxed for turpentine, fire-scarred or otherwise 

 injured. Larval mines are oval, 6X10 mm. in diameter and wind 

 back and forth through sapwood and deep into the heartwood. This 

 shortens the life of the tree as a producer of turpentine and spoils 

 part of it for lumber. Trees often so badly riddled that they are 

 broken over by the wind. Adults emerge during late winter and 

 spring. (Burke.) 



There is nothing in the description to warrant the retention of 

 the name cribripennis even as a slight variety. The species is 

 southern and rarely taken north of the Carolinas. It is probable that 

 a record such as one from New Jersey (Boonton, N. J.), Jan. 31, 

 under bark of dead pine (G. M. Greene), refers to a straggler and 

 should not be included in the regular distribution of the species. 



Buprestis decora (Fab.), 75-217. 



Elongate, narrower than preceding species. Elytra punctate, striate, 

 green or occasionally with a distinct indigo-blue median vitta, suture and 

 lateral margins always cupreous, tips bidentate. Antennre black, slightly 

 metallic, first three segments light green. Head and pronotum green, often 

 with a cupreous luster, densely and coarsely punctate, pronotum occasionally 



