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at the base, elevated part black ; el>'tia embossed, with a ndgc extending 

 from the apex where it is broader, by the side of the suture towards the 

 base where it is abbreviated : the depressed spaces have a faint histre of 

 copper and bronze, and are thickly punctured ; apex rounded and obso- 

 letely serrulated : shoulders incrassated with a short robv.nt tooth : all the 

 tibiae are bent or bowed ; cubit not dilated at the extremity : hypopygium 

 with a deep sinus. 



This nearly resembles B. O. irinervia, but is sufficiently distinguished 

 by having only a single ridge on the elytra, and the posterior tibiae as 

 well as the other pairs, bowed : the prothorax also is not channelled and 

 its sides are rounded. [Belongs to Chrysobotliris. Is not included in Le 

 C'onte's List.] 



[159,] 212. BuPRESTis (Trachvpteris) Drum.uondi Kirby. — Plate 

 ii., fig. 8, var. B. — Length of body 4^^ lines. Several specimens taken m 

 Lat. 54' and 65^ and in the Rocky Mountains. 



Body as it were reticulated with numerous punctures, bronzed, more 

 obscurely on the upper surface, more glos.sy on the lower. Head very 

 thickly punctured, obsoletely and slenderly channelled; apex of the nose 

 levigated : prothorax transverse, with a double sinus in the basilar margin; 

 obsoletely channelled, impressed on each side nearer the base, covered 

 with innumerable scratches variou.-:ly drawn, those of the disk being 

 somewhat concentric ; sides punctured ; scutellum very minute, trans- 

 verse : elytra very thickly punctured, and also exhibiting an appearance 

 of granulations, slanting at the apex ; the disk of the elytra. Ticarer the 

 apex than the base, is marked with three yellow roundish dots arranged 

 In an obtuse-angled triangle with the vertex towards the side : underside 

 (/f the abdomen towards the anus less thickly punctured. 



Variety B. Elytra with four yellow dots, a minute one, but varying in 

 size, being placed outside the anterior one. [Belongs to Melanophila 

 Esch. " Oregon and Washington Territories, abundant, straying into 

 California and Alaska." (Le Conte).] 



213. BupRESTis (Trachvpteris) umbellatarum Fabr. — Length of 

 body 2 3^ lines. Several specimens taken near Cumberland-house, Lat. 54*. 



[160.] The description that Fabriclus and Olivier have given of B. 

 umbellatarum is so extremely brief, that I am by no means certain that 

 the insect I here give under that name is really synonymous with it. As 

 far as their description goes it corresponds, and also with Olivier's figure, 

 but that is very indistinct. It has been found in Barbary, Portugal, and 

 Provence. Fabricius says it affords no characters except its colour and 



