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tured, but with a glabrous dorsal line and one or two lateral 

 glabrous spots; elytra violaceous, with cupreous reflections ; base 

 violaceous, punctured-striate ; tip with a small tooth at the sutu- 

 ral angle, and about four very minute teeth ; beneath cupreous 

 polished ; venter with a series of three yellow quadrate spots on 

 each side, and a large oblique oval one on the anal segment 

 approaching at the middle of the segment and extending by a 

 branch for a short distance on the edge. 



Length thirteen-twentieths of an inch. 



This is a very pretty insect, readily distinguished by the sub- 

 ocular, thoracic, and ventral spots. 



[A species of AncylocMra, afterwards described as B. sexn 

 Lap. and Gory, Mon. Buprest. 2, 129, tab. 32, fig. 178.— Lec.] 



SCYDM^INUS Latr. 



S. CLAVIPES. — Blackish ; elytra bright rufous, blackish at tip; 

 antennae longer than the thorax. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania. 



Body hairy ; head piceous; antennae rather longer than the thorax 

 and with the palpi, dull rufous; thorax blackish with an impres- 

 sed transverse line at base and the appearance of a longitudinal 

 one before ; hairs numerous ; elytra smooth, polished, impunctured , 

 and without striae ; bright rufous ; hairs long ; humeral angles 

 longitudinally elevated ; [273] a slight groove at the base of each 

 elytrum, tip black ; feet rufous ; thighs clavate ; venter dull 

 rufous. 



Length more than one-twentieth of an inch. 



S. brevicornis. — Blackish ; elytra bright rufous, blackish at 

 tip ; antennae shorter than the thorax. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania. 



Body hairy; head black ; antennae rather shorter than the tho- 

 rax, hairy, dull rufous ; thorax polished, black ; elytra smooth, 

 polished, impunctured, and without striae, bright rufous; hairs 

 long; humeral angles longitudinally elevated ; a slight groove at 

 the base of each elytrum, tip black; feet rufous; thighs clavate, 

 dusky at tip. 



Length rather more than one-twentieth of an inch. 



Strongly resembles the preceding, but the antennae are much 



