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FAMILY BUPRESTID.t. 



[151.] 202. BuPRESTis (Anoplis) RUSTicoRUM Kirby. — Length of 

 body 9^^ lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 



Body black-bronzed, punctured, glossy. Head with a levigated ele- 

 vation in the centre between the eyes, channelled behind ; marked with 

 two yellow spots underneath, on the cheeks, a triangular one adjoining the 

 eyes on their inner side, and two dots of the same colour between them ; 

 prothorax grossly punctured with levigated spaces, the discoidal one longi- 

 tudinal ; above the scutellum is an impression ; sides converging at the 

 l)asc of the [irothorax ; anterior angles with a yellow stripe : elytra slightly 

 furrowed with numerous very minute punctures in the furrows ; rounded 

 at the apc.x : interstices with scattered punctures ; those of the second, 

 third, fourth, fifth, eiglith and ninth furrows elevated so as to form an 

 obtuse ridge : the four last ventral segments of the abdomen have on 

 each side a reddish -yellow spot, those on the last segment being the 

 largest and most irregular ; anus with two distinct lateral teeth. 



This species is so similar to B. mstica, that at first I regarded it as 

 merely a variety, that insect however is smaller ; the head has a distinct 

 longitudinal channel . the prothorax is less thickly punctured, and the 

 sides, at the base, converge less but more suddenly : the elytra are trun 

 rated, or rather premorse, at the apex with a few minute denticles: the 

 mandibles have a yellow spot, and there are none on the ventral segments 

 of the abdomen, except the anal one : the anal teeth also are obsolete. 

 TBelongs to the genus Ancylochira Elsch. " Oregon and Washington Ter- 

 ritories, abundant"(L'- Conle).] 



[152.] 203. BuPRESTis (Anoplis) Paganorum Kirby. — Length of 

 body 7^4 lines. A single specimen taken at Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. 



Very like the species last described. Body of the same colour, head, 

 anterior angles of the prothorax, and underside of the abdomen similarly 

 spotted, except that in the ft>rmer there are no frontal dots. The pro- 

 thorax however is difi'erently shaped, being somewhat constricted anter- 

 iorly, with the sides towards the base rounded, it is also channelled ; the 

 sculpture of the elytra is similar, 1>ut they are more attenuated and trun- 

 cated at the end, like B. A. rustica, and armed with three minute den- 

 ticles. [Probably belongs also to Aticylochira ; unknown to Dr. Le 

 Conte.] 



204. BuPRESTis (Anoii.is) Xutalli Kirby. — Length of body y^-s — 8 

 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. and on the Rocky Mountains. 



