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allied, with the intervals of the elytra less irregularly punctured, 
especially towards the suture, with the tips rounded, or hardly 
truncate, not bidentate as in that species. The abdomen is broadly 
rounded at the apex. The following description is quoted from Fitch’s 
Fourth Report: 
The Ultramarine Buprestis is half an inch long and of a brilliant green color tinged 
with golden yellow, the sides of the thorax being pure golden, with also astripe along 
the middle where is a very slight wide groove, scarcely obvious. The wing-covers 
are brilliant blue, which color is margined on each side and at the base with golden 
yellow tinged with green, the suture and outer margin being burnished coppery red. 
On each wing-cover are about eight rows of large deep punctures placed closely to- 
gether, and some of them united or confluent, and between each of these rows is a 
series of smaller round punctures. Their tips are cnt off transversely, and on the side 
next to the suture is a minute projecting tooth. The scutel is circular, deeply concave, 
and green, with its sides blue. The thorax is covered with close, deep, coarse punct- 
ures, which are more dense and confluent on each side. The head is rough from simi- 
lar confluent punctures, with a slender, smooth elevated line in its middle. The 
antenne are black with the basal joints coppery red. ‘The under side is burnished 
coppery with the sutures of the abdomen green. (Fitch.) 
9. SPOTTED-WINGED BUPRESTIS. 
Buprestis lineata Fabricius. 
_ A shining brassy-black beetle, sometimes blue-black or dark bottle-green, of the 
same shape with the preceding and 0.45 to 0.65 long, each wing-cover with from three 
to six pale tawny yellow spots of irregular shape and very variable, the mouth and 
throat often and sometimes the face of same color, and also a spot on each side of the 
last segment of the abdomen beneath, the wing-covers with several impressed lines 
and a row of punctures on each of the interstices between them, the thorax with 
coarser close punctures and a single large one on the middle of its hind edge. (Fitch.) 
I have met with this beetle, in July, on pines growing at a distance 
from any other trees, an evidence that it had been bred from them. The 
spots on its wing-covers are extremely variable, being alike in no two 
specimens. 
The more usual form is slightly larger, measuring 0.60 to 0.75 in 
length, and the wing-covers with two tawny orange stripes on each, the 
inner one of which is widest at its base and does not reach to the tip. 
Here also the last segment of the abdomen, beneath, has a tawny orange 
spot on each side, and the throat, mouth, and face, and a stripe on each 
side of the thorax are yellow, varied in places with red. (Fitch.) It 
occurs not infrequently in the Middle and Southern States according to 
Leconte. I have found, in company with Mr. Calder, the elytra of this 
beetle under the bark of the white and pitch pine, in Providence, R. I. 
10. Buprestis rusticorum Kirby. 
This is an abundant insect in the pine woods of Oregon and Wash- 
ington Territory, and appears to range eastward into British America. 
We have found it in pine woods at Manitou, Colorado, July 16th, while 
it is not uncommon in New England, Mr. George Hunt finding it at 
