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cent. Many of the species are very destructive to trees, etc. 
Chrysobothris has killed some of our pine trees outright, and did 
considerable damage to fruit trees. I collect them on the trunks 
of dead trees and beat them from foliage into an umbrella. 
Buprestis rufipes is our most beautiful species, I have found its 
larve boring in beech and maple. During June specimens may 
be found sunning themselves on the trunks of dead beech and 
other trees. Approach them stealthily or they will drop into the 
weeds and be lost. From a single dead beech in Avondale over a 
hundred rufipes emerged or perished in the attempt. June to 
September. 
CHALCOPHORA. 
C. campestris Say. 
Abundant; cuts its way out of beech and maple in April, May 
and June. 
DICERCA. 
D. divaricata’ Say. D. obscura Fab. 
PCCILONOTA. 
P. cyanipes Say. 
BUPRESTIS. 
B. rufipes Oliv. B. striata Fab. 
B. fasciata Fab. 
The last two have been taken about lumber yards where pine 
timber was being sawed and were perhaps introduced into the 
locality. 
CINYRA. 
C. gracilipes Melsh. 
MELANOPHILA. 
M. longipes Say. 
ANTHAXIA. 
A. viridifrons Say. A. cyanella Gory. 
A. viridicornis Say. A. quercata Fab. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS. 
C. femorata Oliv. C. sexsignata Say. 
C. floricola Gory. Cr azutea ac. 
C. pusilla Lap. C. scitula Gory. 
ACTENODES, 
A. acornis Say. 
A large unidentified species, that is perhaps new. 
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