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ington, Vowell's Mills, August; Louisiana. Kentucky. Seashore 

 (Liebeck) ; Anglesea, July, on oak and flying around dead wood; Cape 

 May (Smith's List); New Jersey. Ardmore, August 14 (Mrs. 

 Skinner); Frankford, July I, August 14 (Schmidt); Angora, Au- 

 gust 18, on dead beech (G. M. Greene) ; Overbrook, July 28 (G. M. 

 Greene) ; Lancaster County (Beer) ; Harrisburg, July 13, adults taken 

 on dead hickory (Champlain) ; Hummelstown, July 5, 15, on dead 

 tulip poplar and beech (KnuU) ; Phila Neck, July 9, 30, on maple and 

 beech (Hornig) ; Pennsylvania. Southern half of state, scarce, 

 July 4; Indiana. Georgia. Douglas County, 900 ft. (Snow); 

 Kansas. Cincinnati (Dury) ; Ohio. Missouri. 



Breeds in oak and beech. (Chittenden.) In dead beech and 

 maple (Dury), and the southern yellow pines. Mines chestnut, 

 hickory, tulip (Burke). 



In his Memoirs, V, 1914, p. 355, Casey states that virens is the 

 female of rufipcs. The form described as elongata by Casey on its 

 possession of blackish legs should be referred to rufipcs, as in the 

 examination of extended series the color of the legs was found to 

 exhibit considerable variation. The markings of this species are 

 remarkably constant, the greatest degree of variation being in the 

 size. 



Buprestis viridisuturalis n. sp. 



Elongate parallel. Predominating color of elytra fulvous or reddish. 

 Male with suture narrowly greenish, large spot just behind middle extending 

 from suture almost to lateral margin green, occasionally with a very small 

 greenish dot in center of elytra midway between suture and margin. Female 

 with suture broadly green, usually with large spot in middle and another just 

 behind the middle extending from suture almost to lateral margin green, often 

 with one or more small greenish dots just behind humerus. Antennce me- 

 tallic, first segment from two to three times as long as the second. Eyes 

 large and prominent. Head and pronotum bright metallic green, densely and 

 coarsely punctate. Sides of pronotum (male) nearly parallel, slightly arcuate, 

 (female) more arcuate and inflated basally. Elytra parallel, slightly sinuate 

 behind base, tips bidentate. Beneath metallic green often with purplish re- 

 flection. Prosternum not sulcated, sparingly punctate in center, more densely 

 so toward sides. First abdominal segment not sulcated, tips bisinuate to trun- 

 cate with a small tooth on each side. Legs, sides of prosternum and abdomen 

 covered with long silvery pubescence. Legs finely and moderately punctate, 

 metallic except tarsi which are brownish. Male, length 11-13 mm., width 4 

 mm. Female, length 22 mm., width 7 mm. 



