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Long Pond, Wading River, L. I., July 27 (Davis) ; Belleport, L. L, 

 July 23, August 8, common on dead pine logs (Nicolay) Karner, July 

 10 (Joutel Coll.) ; 'Nzw York. Lakehurst, July 28 (Davis) ; Sea 

 Isle, April 26 (Luccareni) ; Malaga, August 4 (G. M. Greene) ; 

 Nevi^ark (Bischoff) ; Da Costa, July 28 (Daecke) ; Brigantine Beach, 

 in drifted wood (Hn.) ; Jamesburg, Aug. 4 (Joutel) ; Anglesea, 

 June 14 (Brn.) ; New Jersev. Lake Co., rare, June 29. July 25; 

 Indiana. Providence, under bark of white and pitch pine (Packard) ; 

 Rhode Island. Lehigh Gap, July 3 (G. M. Greene) ; Inglenook, 

 April 18 (Kirk) ; Pennsylvania. Dartmouth, June 13 (Easton) ; 

 Framingham, dug dead out of white pine stump (Frost) ; Lowell, 

 July (Blanchard); Mass. Nova Scotia (Hall); Toronto, Ont. 

 (Crew) ; Terrebonne Co., Que. (Hansen) ; Canada. Not common 

 in Canada. Prefers pine in first death year. (Manee.) 



Food plants, Pinus strohus, rigida. Mines wood of injured, 

 dying and dead trees; loblolly pine {Pinus tcrda) ; scrub pine (P. 

 virginiana), and long leaf pine (P. palustris) ; pupates and transforms 

 to beetle stage from April to June, flies from April to August, 

 (Burke). 



Buprestis lineata var. davisi new variety. 



Similar in form to preceding. Elsrtra brassy black each with either two 

 more or less connected yellowish vittse or having yellowish markings spread 

 over entire surface, except for shoulders, lateral margin, suture and just 

 behind the apex. Striae and intervals finely punctate. Antenna: green, usu- 

 ally slightly bronzed. Punctuation and markings of head same as in lineata. 

 Pronotum bronze to green with faint touch of bronze, anterior angles marked 

 with yellowish to fulvous which often extends along lateral margins as far as 

 posterior angles. Prosternum densely and deeply punctate, anterior margin 

 yellowish to slightly fulvous ; prosternal spine sparingly punctate. Ventral 

 surface and legs variable bronze to green, distinctly, densely and deeply 

 punctate. Last ventral segment having a small yellowish spot near each an- 

 terior angle. Males with last abdominal segment truncate, females rounded; 

 a small tooth on each side. Length, male 15-18 mm., female 16.5-18 mm. 



Described from a series of two males and three females collected 

 by Mr. W. T. Davis at Cocoanut Grove, September 14, and Big Pine 

 Key, Florida. Holotype (J*) and two paratypes (J) in the collection 

 of Mr. Davis. Allotype ($) and one paratype (J^) in the Nicolay 

 collection. 



This form can be readily recognized by the light yellowish mark- 



