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adults are said to feed on the tender buds of pine and spruce. This insect, 

 according to Dr Saunders, is a very handsome beetle from %o to ijio inch 

 long, of a coppery red color, with a broad, bluish green stripe on each w'ng 

 cover, which varies in brilliancy in different specimens. There are four 

 raised, smooth lines on each wing cover and a wide, shallow groove along 

 the middle of the thorax. Both thorax and wing covers are pitted with 

 minute dots. Dr LeConte records this species from the Middle States, 

 Canada and Lake Superior. 



Dicerca punctulata Schonherr 



^If^-^' 1 An obscure, coppery or black bronze, flattened beetle about 



Ji inch long, occurs on pitch pine. 



This buprestid was rare at Karner in 1901, only two 

 specimens being taken, one in June and the other in 

 August. Dr Fitch states that this species may be 

 recognized by the smooth, transverse elevation on its 

 front, extending from eye to eye. The wing covers taper 

 to a rounded, nearly truncate tip. 



Fig. 187 D i c e r ( 

 punctulata,. 

 larged (original) 



Dicerca tuberculata Chev. 



A brassv metallic flattened beetle about fs inch in length, occurs in midsummer on 

 pine, arbor-vitae and probably some other evergreens. 



This species was taken on arbor-vitae July 6, 1903, at Big JVIoose. It 

 is a brassy colored species, having coarse, rough, irregular marks. The 

 rows of coarse punctures on its wing covers are about equally distant from 

 each other instead of being in pairs. The intervening spaces have many 

 irreo-ular, elevated, black, polished spots, and the elevated, transverse lines 

 upon the front are interrupted and not very prominent. LeConte states 

 that the terminal segment of the male is truncate, emarginate, with tibiae 

 simple, while in the female the last segment is rounded apically. This 

 species has been recorded from Maine and, as stated above, occurs in New 

 York. Blanchard records it from Massachusetts. 



