STUDIES IN THE AMERICAN BUPRESTID^ 9I 



small frontal spots, the posterior spots seldom and only sporadically 

 indicated, the antero-inf erior thoracic and two anterior marginal trans- 

 verse spots of the prosternum less developed; elytra narrower, with 

 similarly small, sparse and very broken pale maculation; under surface 

 with bright metallic lustre, the abdominal punctures rather strong but 

 sparser, the orange-red spot at each side of the last segment more 

 posteriorly oblique inwardly, sometimes almost obsolete. Length 

 (9) 1 2. 7-13.5 mm.; width 4.8-5.4 mm. North Carolina (Southern 



Pines) deflciens n. subsp. 



B — Form shorter, stouter and less convex, not so shining or metallic 

 above, the under surface dark subcupreous; flavate border of the 

 eyes ( 9 ) extending upward to the middle of their inner margins, with- 

 out other pale frontal marking in the type; prothorax nearly as in 

 maculipennis, the elytra shorter and broader, two-thirds longer than 

 wide, the flavate spots large, solid and complete, the first and second 

 united, the external part of the latter curving forward externally, 

 enveloping the humeral callus and virtually attaining the base, the 

 third touching the second internally and similarly strongly though 

 posteriorly obUque, the fourth small and subapical; abdomen nearly 

 as in the two preceding but less strongly punctate, the lateral spot of 

 the last segment obsolescent. Length (?) 14.0 mm.; vridth 5.9 mm. 



Virginia (Cape Henry) fusiformis n. subsp. 



Smaller and more boreal in habitat, the head notably smaller in size, the 

 ante-coxal plate of the metasternum apparently very seldom maculate 



with paler tint 7 



7 — Abdomen narrowly and rather deeply sulcate at base as usual, with 

 smaller, sparser punctuation; pronotum without well defined and more 

 convex impunctate areas. Body narrowly fusoid, convex, shining, 

 feebly subaeneous; head rather small, the eyes not very prominent, the 

 lower yellow stripe along the eyes terminating at their lower third ( ? ) 

 or mth this border ascending to the upper part of the eyes, bisinuate 

 within and transversely, inwardly prolonged at its upper end, with a 

 large anterior anchor-shaped spot ( d^) ; prothorax nearly as in deficiens 

 but more transverse, the elytra nearly as in maculipennis, with the 

 flavate spots more or less disintegrated; abdomen with the transverse 

 lateral spot frequently wholly obsolete. Length {&, 9) 9.5.-14-0 

 mm.; width 3.8-5.5 mm. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania (Hazleton) 



and Indiana inconstans Mels. 



A — Form more evenly fusoid, the head ( 9 ) still rather smaller, with the 

 inferior yellow line along the eyes and two small anterior spots; pro- 

 thorax similar, except that the sides are more converging from base 

 to apex; elytra similarly striate but with the sides posteriorly more 

 evenly arcuate to the truncature and not straight or even feebly 

 sinuate, as they generally are in inconstans; maculation more com- 

 plete, nearly as in fusiformis; abdomen more finely and feebly punc- 

 tate, the ante-coxal plate of the metasternum feebly bimaculate in the 

 type. Length (9) 12.2 ram.; width 5.0 mm. Michigan. 



scripta n. subsp. 



