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larger [pi. 20, fig. 11]. Dr Harris states that this species issues from the 

 trees between the eml of May ami the first of ]\\\y. It ina)' l)e recognized 

 by the aid of the above characters and the following: The thorax is not so 

 wide as the hinder part of the body and its posterior margin is hollow on 

 both sides to receive the rounded base of the wing covers, on each of 

 which there are three irregular, smooth, elevated lines divided and 

 interrupted l)y large, thickly punctured, impresseil spots, two of which 

 are oljliipie. The larva makes a slender, winding, serpentine gallery 

 between the bark and the wood of newly felled trees and presents the 

 usual buprestid characters. This species is reported as rather common on 

 pine wood and timber in Massachusetts, though not so abundant as 

 C. floricola Gory. It occurs in Canada and the northern United 

 States. 



Chrysobothris floricola Gory. 



A modestly colored, llattened beetle about -'s inch long occurs in midsummer on 

 hard ])ine braiu lies. 



This modestly colored buprestid about og inch long [pi. 20, fig. io| 



occurred at Karner on hard pine branches and young needles from the 13th 



of June to the latter part of August 1901. It ranges from Florida through 



the Middle -States probably into Canada. 



Chrysobothris pusilla Lap. & Gory 



A small, flattened beetle J4 inch long is alnindant on hard pine from June till 

 September. 



This small buprestid ^^ inch long [pi. 20, fig. 9], was very abundant 

 on hard pine at Karner early in June till the first part of September 1901. 

 The' blue abdomen, uncovered when the ins(;ct is in tlight, glistens brightly 

 in the sunshine. This is a common pine insect ranging from North 

 Carolina probably to Canada and westward to Wisconsin. 



