40 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xxv, 



it occurs, most specimens were taken flying. I beat one female from 

 the half dead pine needles where I took malacliiticus. 



A. malachiticus (Haldeman). 



Stenura malachitica Hald., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, New series, 1845, p. 64. 

 Sienura cyanea Hald., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1847, Vol. Ill, p. 151. 

 Pachyta leonardi Harris Mss, 



Head and thorax green or bronzed, punctures coarser than in viridis, but 

 not so much so as in hoffmanii, apex' of antennae reddish, elytra splendid green, 

 sometimes bronzed, scabrous, with dilated, impressed punctures, scutellum 

 black, trophi and feet testaceous, tarsi and outer half of tibiae brown, pro- 

 thorax with a lateral tubercle. Male body decidedly wedge shaped, antennae 

 black except with touch of red at basal joints, female body more oblong, 

 antennae annulate. Length 12—16 mm. 



Jackson, N. H., June 5 (E. D. Harris), Hampton, N. H., June 13 

 (Shaw), Marquette, Mich., June 28, in wash up (Sherman) Cumber- 

 land Co., Maine (near Douglas Hill), May i8-June 14 (Nicolay), 

 Rock City, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., June 7 (W. T. Davis), Fort Mont- 

 gomery, June 14, beating blossoms (Schott), June 30 (H. G. Barber), 

 Somerset County, Pa. 



Although rare this is the green species most generally taken. My 

 specimens were beaten from half dead pine needles, from off the tops 

 of trees felled the previous winter. I never took a specimen from a 

 completely dead or dried up cluster of needles, nor from a live and 

 healthy tree. By beating branches all morning I would be lucky in 

 securing one specimen. Besides differing from viridis in color of 

 the legs, the very great contrast both in color and punctuation of 

 thorax ought to dispense for all time with the thought that they are 

 the same species. 



A. viridis Leconte. 



A. viridis Lee, Agass. L. Sup., 1850, p. 236. 



Black, head and thorax brassy, discretely and not deeply punctured, gray- 

 pubescent, the latter narrowed in front, constricted on each side, with a shal- 

 low channel, spined (not very acutely) at the sides, elytra with large con- 

 fluent punctures, substriate, splendid green-bronzed, rounded at apex, apex of 

 antennae and base of tibiae reddish. Male body decidedly wedge-shaped, an- 

 tennae black, except with slight touch of red at basal joints, female body more 

 oblong, antennas distinctly annulate. Length 13-16 mm. 



The description is copied from Le Conte's with a few changes. 

 The specimens I have seen have the head and thorax black and 

 slightly brassy, not virescent as Le Conte said. The species also pos- 



