148 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FOREST AND SHADE TREES. 
7. THE GOLDEN BUPRESTIS. 
Buprestis striata (Fabr.). 
Order COLEOPTERA ; family BUPRESTID.E. 
Appearing upon pine and spruce trees in May and June, a brilliant and sparkling 
copper-red beetle, 0.55 to 0.70 long, its wing-covers marked with a broad brilliant 
blnish-green stripe on each and with four elevated smooth lines in which are several 
deep punctures, the two outer lines nearly or quite united at their hind ends and the 
exterior middle one a fourth shorter, the depressed spaces between these lines twice as 
wide as the lines and rough from coarse confluent punctures ; its thorax with a wide 
shallow groove aiong the middle, which is sometimes very slight, the surface covered 
with coarse punctures which become dense and confluent along the sides, as they are 
upon the head also, which has a slender elevated line along its middle; the under 
side brilliant coppery. (Fitch. ) 
Like most of the other insect borers in the pine, it appears to be the 
dead wood of logs and stumps which this species prefers to living trees. 
T. B. Ashton informs me that he once found the fragments of one of 
these beetles in the interior of a pine log. I have met with it, in two 
instances, stationed at the tips of the limbs of young spruce trees in my 
yard, and it is probable that in its perfect state it feeds upon the tender 
young buds of the pine and the spruce. (Fitch.) 
Mr. George Hunt tells us that it occurs on the white pine and yellow 
pine (P. rigida) in Northern New York. 
Leconte states that it inhabits the Middle States, Canada, and the 
Lake Superior region. It varies in brilliancy of color; the male is nar- 
rower than the female, and has the tip of the abdomen more distinetly 
truncate, or, rather, more broadly rounded. 
Allied to this species is Buprestis lauta (Leconte), which is abundant 
in Washington Territory and Oregon; while we have received it from 
Utah, through Mr. J. L. Barfoot, curator of the Salt Lake Museum. It 
has also been detected by Prof. F. H: Snow at Santa Fé, N. Mex. The 
male is a little narrower, says Leconte, than the female, but the tip of 
the abdomen is somewhat truncate in both. 
Buprestis radians (Leconte) also inhabits Oregon. It is shaped like 
the male of B. lauta, but may be known by the very hairy front and 
prosternum. The tip of the abdomen is somewhat truncate. 
Nearly allied to the two last named is B. adjecta (Leconte) from Ore- 
gon. Itis said by Leconte to be broader even than the female of B. 
lauta, with intermediate elevated ridges on the elytra; the tip of the 
latter is distinctly bidentate, while the abdomen is less strongly pune- 
tured and scarcely truncate. 
8. THE ULTRAMARINE BUPRESTIS. 
Buprestis ultramarina Say. 
This species has been found by Fitch in the middle of July in a forest 
of pines and other trees, and is probably a pine insect. It is said by 
Leconte to be a broader form than B. decora Fabricius, to which it is 
