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with a faint median sulcus, more often entirely wanting, widest at base, gradu- 

 ally narrowing toward apex, about two-thirds wider than long. Ventral sur- 

 face and legs entirely greenish to bronzed, densely punctate, punctures of 

 presternum coarse, those of abdomen fine. Ventral surface of male slightly 

 more hairy, tip of abdomen truncate and subsinuale, that of female sub- 

 truncate. Length 11-18 mm. 



Records.— Sotithern Pines, April 6, May 7 (Manee); Wrights- 

 ville, April 6 (Davis) ; North Carolina. Grand Bay, April, March 

 (Loding) ; Taylor Co., y\pril (Gentmg) ; Mobile, March (Loding) ; 

 Alabama. Jacksonville, beaten from pine saplings (Dury) ; Big 

 Pine Key (Davis) ; Orlando (Pearsall) ; Florida. Louisiana. 

 Thomasville, April I (Hebard) ; Georgia. Tyler County; Texas. 

 Cobham; Virginia. Gloucester County; New Jersey, Pa. Little 

 Rock; Ark. Larv?e and adults split out of rotted pine railway ties 

 in late October ; in December, they may leave their fuel home on ac- 

 count of the warmth of the woodbox; from mid-March to early May 

 among needles of young long-leaf pines probably feeding; in May on 

 denuded trunks of dead and semi-decadent pines; an occasional stray 

 specimen in June. Remains in wood as adults from late October to 

 spring emerging about March i. Decora prefers rotted pine. 

 (Manee.) 



This species is not at all rare in the south and on account of its 

 remarkable constancy in color, form and size, can be readily dis- 

 tinguished from all other species. 



Buprestis salisburyensis (Herbst), 01-174. 



nltramarina Say, 36-160. 



Short, oval. Elytra with practically the same markings as those of pre- 

 ceding species, tips rounded, not bidentate, only about two-thirds longer than 

 wide. Antennse blackish green, first two segments bronzed. Head and 

 pronotum as in decora, pronotum shorter, sides more arcuate. Beneath, 

 similar to decora. Length 11-14 mm. 



Records. — Southern Pines, March 26 (Leng) ; North Carolina 

 (Horn Coll.). Georgia (Le Conte). Da Costa, July 4 (Skinner); 

 Clementon, May 7 (Coxey) (G. M. Greene); Sumner, May 13 

 (Coxey) ; Lakehurst, April 30 (Davis) ; Sea Isle, May 24 (Boerner) ; 

 Westville, April 19; Atlantic City, June 28 (Smith List) ; Gloucester, 

 April 20 to yiay 5 (Tolman) ; New Jersey. Carlisle Jc, August 9 

 (Champlain) ; Southwestern Pa. (Hamilton) ; Pennsylvania. Wis- 



