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Records. — Wallace County, 3000 ft. (Snow) ; Kansas. Clear 

 Creek, July (Oslar) ; Littleton, June 24, July 7 (Frost) ; Colorado. 

 Miller, July 16 (Liljeblad) ; Indiana. Peoria, Illinois. I'uffalo 

 Gap (Hall); Dakota. Utah. Badger (Colt); Nebraska. Lusk, 

 July (Williams) ; Wyoming. Texas. Nevada. Great Basin 

 (Chamberlin) ; Lake Tahoe (Van Dyke) ; California. Oweme, 

 Man. (Griddle); Makinak, Man.; Montreal Island, Que.; Rouville 

 Co., Que., July 10; Leduc, Alta., August 3; Wabamun, Alta., July 2 

 (Carr) ; Canada. 



B. con fluent a mines the wood of injured, dying and dead aspen 

 {Popiihis trcmnloidcs) and Cottonwood (P. delfoidcs) ; flies from July 

 to September; attacks planted cottonwood. (Burke.) 



B. tcsscUafa described from Texas by Casey has no good character 

 even to warrant the erection of a subspecies and such forms should 

 be placed with confliienta. Specimens of conflucnia from Alberta, 

 Canada, and other northern localities appear to be more elongate and 

 parallel and less spotted than specimens from Nebraska, Texas and 

 the south. 



Buprestis rufipes (Oliv.), 90-16. 



virens Casey, 09-105. 



elongata Casey, 09-105. 



Elongate parallel, above metallic green, more rarely with a bluish violet 

 luster. Elytra having a basal stripe, two spots behind middle and tips yellow 

 and bidentate, strise narrow densely, intervals sparingly punctate. Antennas 

 pale brown. Head and pronotum green or bluish, coarsely punctured. Hy- 

 pomera yellow ; prosternum metallic green except anterior margin and broad 

 median vitta brownish yellow. Beneath green, last three ventral segments 

 reddish brown with more or less of a purplish tinge, the last one generally 

 marked with a large spot of yellow; a median stripe usually broken into 

 spots and a row of dots along the sides yellow. Legs brown, rarely in part 

 black to metallic green. Males distinguished by having last abdominal seg- 

 ment truncate, females sinuate. Length 17.5-25 mm.; extreme, 12 nun. in 

 male and 28 mm. in female. 



Records. — Crescent City ; Enterprise, not rare in oak trees 

 (Schwarz) ; Steinhatchee River; Florida. Comal County; Browns- 

 ville, July; New Braunfels, May 5 (Mittendorf) ; Texas. Newport 

 News (Bailey) ; Cobham ; Nelson County, July 9 (Davis) ; Virginia. 

 Near Little Paint Brook, Prince Georges County (Davis) ; Mary- 

 land. Southern Pines, June 30 (Manee) ; North Carolina. Cov- 



