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with copper, and is smaller, but the sculpture and form are the 

 same. 



I may add, as closely allied to the vmpedita and to the saUs- 

 huriensis Web., in point of coloring, a specimen which I found 

 in New Jersey many years since, and which I then described 

 under the name of vllramarina ; but the description was mis- 

 laid and never published, and the specimen is now deprived of 

 its head and thorax. The following is a description of what re- 

 mains of it. [160] 

 Scutel orbicular, disk indented : elytra blue on the disk ; sub- 

 margin and subsuture green, passing into golden towards the 

 margin and suture which are brilliant coppery or red golden ; 

 basal margin green golden ; surface with seven or eight striae of 

 dilated profound punctures; the interstitial lines with each a 

 single series of smaller punctures; elevated lines; tip truncated, 

 with a slight projection at the inner angle : beneath green-golden, 

 with a slight coppery tinge : tibiaj coppery. 

 Length of the elytra two-fifths of an inch. 

 It is more brilliant than cither the imj)rjUta or salisbvncnsis. 

 From the former it is distinguished by being destitute of elevated 

 lines on the elytra, and from both by its regular series of large 

 profound punctures. 



[I agree perfectly with the opinions of Dr. Harris expressed 

 in the note on the preceding page, except in regard to the B. 

 aurulenta mentioned, which is not that of Linnaeus, but of Oli- 

 vier and several later authors. The description of Linnaeus, 

 Syst. Nat. 1, 6G1, makes no mention of the elytral costse, and 

 applies better to A. decora than to A. striata; the name has 

 produced so much confusion, that it should not be applied to 

 any species, but should rather be altogether dropped ; B. ultra- 

 marina is an Ancylochira very closely allied to A. decora, but 

 of a broader form, with the intervals of the elytra less irregularly 

 punctured, especially towards the suture, with the tips rounded 

 or truncate and not bidentate. 



Messrs. Laporte and Gory, by unaccountable carelessness, have 

 affixed this name to a species of Chrysohothris. — Leg.] 



14. B. VIRIDICORNIS nob. — This has been mistaken by an 

 European entomologist for the Agrilus ruficollis F.; but it is 



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