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the elytra, which are normally two broad vittze upon each; the extreme variation is where 
the outer vitta is broken into three spots, and the inner one into two; the two anterior 
spots are then connected by a trausverse line forming a hamate spot. The tip of the abdo- 
men in the male is truncate, with a little tooth each side; in the female, it is broadly 
rounded, but the same teeth are seen. The under surface is dull bronze, with the head 
and anterior margin of the prosternum fulvous. 
8. A. leviventris Lec. Pac. R. R. Reports, 47th Par. Ins. 43. 
Northern California, Mr. Child. Remarkably distinct from the other species of this 
group by the feeble punctuation of the abdomen: the tip of the abdomen in the female is 
broadly rounded, with an acute tooth each side. 
9. A. Nuttalli. Buprestis Anophs) Nuttolli Kirby, Fauna Bor. Am. 152. 
Lake Superior, one female: found according to Kirby in lat. 65°, and in the Rocky 
Mountains. I was inclined to consider Kirby’s species as identical with A. consularis, 
but upon reviewing the matter, I find that no mention is made in his description of the 
sternal yellow markings so conspicuous in A. consularis, nor is the thorax said to be 
sinuate on the sides, a character very obvious in the last mentioned species. I therefore 
consider, under the present name, a species which is broader than A. consularis, with the 
sides of the thorax broadly rounded, and margined with yellow; the strie of the elytra are 
deeper, and the intervals more distinctly punctured; the spots are two in number, of a 
reddish colour, with some very small lines near the base: the prosternum is immaculate ; 
the coxee and femora are partly red; the abdomen has a lateral red spot on each segment, 
the antepenultimate and penultimate have two discoidal spots, and finally the broad 
groove of the first segment becomes indistinct posteriorly, while in A. consularis it ex- 
tends to the hind margin of the segment. The tip of the abdomen is truncate in the female, 
without prominent teeth. 
10. A. consularis De. Cat. 88. Buprestis consularis Gory, Mon. Bupr. 4, 120, tab. 21, 118. 
Northern New York, abundant. The sinuate side of the thorax, the spots of the elytra 
always broken up into little lines, the spotted prosternum, and the groove of the base of 
the abdomen extending the whole length of the first segment will distinguish this from 
the preceding. The last segment of the abdomen is broadly truncate in both sexes, with 
the angles minute, but distinct. 
ll. A. alternans, nigro-znea nitida, thorace antrorsum angustato lateribus subsinuato, rude punctato, linea 
dorsali, callisque nonnullis levibus, elytris striatis, vix parce punctatis, interstitiis alternis convexis, macula ante 
medium, altera mox pone medium, lineolisque pone basin paucis pallidis, apice truncatis, subdentatis, abdomine 
punctato, segmento Imo sulcato, 3io et 4to guttis discoidalibus duabus, ultimo macula utrinque transyersa rubris 
ornatis. Long. -75. 
