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TToad and thorax dark bronze-g'recn ; under-side black, 

 retlcxed maroiu of elytra usually browiiisli-yellow ; legs 

 brown or reddish. L. 2^ 1. Common. B. varium, 01. 



1) h. Antennae reddish-brown, with the first 

 joint and base of next four joints yellow. 



Head and thorax greenish-bronze ; yellow spots on 

 elytra extensive, leaving only three toothed, transverse 

 bands of bronze ; striae deep and strongly punctured ; 

 under-side black-green, reflexed margin of elytra brownish- 

 yellow ; legs yellow. L. 2 1. Eare. B.ndust^t7)l, Bchaiim. 



r r. Antennae black, first joint red beneath 

 only. 

 Park bronze ; elytra with two narrow, yellowish, toothed 

 transverse bands, and sometimes one or two small yellow 

 spots at base and a dark point at apex, with fine punctured 

 striae ; under-side lilack, reflexed margin of elytra dark, 

 legs black. L. 2 1, Not common. B. ohliquum, Sturm, 



IB S, Elytra yellow, with a common brown 

 cloud behind middle. 

 Head and thorax bronze-green; antennae and legs yel- 

 low ; under-side black-green. L li 1. Moderately connnon. 



B. ejihippium, Marsh. 



2, Striae on elytra deep and impunctate. 



Park bronze ; antennae blackish, first joint red, at least 



beneath ; legs black. Head and thorax impunctate, latter 



short, not niuch narrowed behind, flat ; elytra oblong, flat. 



L. 21 1. Not uncommon. B. yrasinum, Duft. 



S, Striae on elytra deep and strongly punctured. 



Bronze-green, shining ; first joint of antennae and legs 

 red, knees and tarsi greenish. Head and thorax strongly 

 punctured, latter mucli narrowed l)ehind, tolerably convex. 

 L. 2:1 1. Common. B. p'linctulatum^lDvQ,-^. 



B. Eighth stria on elytra similar to the rest and placed so 

 far from the marginal stria that the ninth interstice is as 

 broad as the others. 



Head and thorax coppery-bronze; elytra bronze or 

 greenish, the space between the'suture and fourth stria, and 

 some spots outward of this coppery, the third interstice 

 with two oblong silver-gray spots, in each of which is an 



