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The borer of the hiekory has already been described. It is 

 transformed to a beetle which appears to be the Buprestis 

 (Dicerca) lurida* of Fabricius. It is of a lurid or dull brassy 

 color above, bright copper beneath, and thickly punctured all 

 over; there are numerous u-regular impressed lines, and several 

 narrow elevated black spots on the wing-covers, the tip of each 

 of which ends with two little points. It measures from aljout 

 six to eight tenths of an inch in length. This kind of Buprestis 

 appears during the greater part of the summer on the trunks 

 and limbs of the hickory. 



Buprestis { C/iri/sobothris) dcntipes-f of Germar, so named 

 from the little tooth on the under side of the thick fore legs, 

 inhabits the trunks of oak-trees. It completes its transforma- 

 tions and comes out of the trees between the end of May and 

 the first of July. It is oblong oval and flattened, of a bronzed 

 brownish or purplish black color above, copper-colored beneath, 

 and rough like shagreen with numerous punctures ; the thorax 

 is not so wide as the hinder part of the body, its hinder margin 

 is hollowed on both sides to receive the rounded base of each 

 wing-cover, and there are two smooth elevated lines on the 

 middle; on each wing-cover there are three irregular smooth 

 elevated Imes, which are divided and interrupted by large 

 thickly punctured impressed spots, two of which are oblique ; 

 the tips are rounded. Length from one half to six tenths of 

 an- inch. 



Buprestis ( Chrijsohothris) femorata of Fabricius has the first 

 pair of thighs toothed beneath, lilvc the preceding, which it 

 resembles also in its form and general appearance. It is of a 

 greenish black color above, with a brassy polish, which is very 

 distinct in the two large transverse impressed spots on each 

 wing-cover; and the thorax has no smooth elevated lines on it. 

 It measures from four tenths to above half of an inch in length. 

 Its time of appearance is from the end of May to the middle 

 of July, during which it may often be seen, in the middle of 



* Buprestis obscura, F., found in the Middle and Southern States, closely 

 resembles the lurida. 

 t Buprestis characteristica, Harris. N. E. Farmer, "Vol. VIII. p. 2. 



