226 REVISION OF THE BUPRESTIDA OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Mas subcuneiformis, elytris a basi ad dodrantem subancustatis, dein magis attenuatis: segmento ventrali ultimo 
postice marginato, linea submarginali paulo elevyata. 
Femina subcylindrica, elytris a basi haud angustatis, postico subito angustatis, sezmento ventrali ultimo postice 
margipato, linea submarginali breviore magis elevata. 
Buprestis pulchella Herbst. Col. 9, 211; tab. 154, f. 6. 1801.) Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 6, 158. 
? Buprestis ornata { Oliv. Ins. 32, 50, tab. 7, fig. 7. (icon pess. vix spec. Fabr.) 
Acmeodera ornata Spinola, Ann. Ent. Soc. France, 7, 360. 
Acmexodera volvulus { Lap. & Gory, Mon. Bupr. 1, 7, tab. 2, f. 8. (nec. Fabr.) 
Acmeodera flavosignata Gory, Mon. Bupr. 4, 80, tab. 6, f. 28. 
? Acmeodera dispar Gory, Mon. Bupr. 4, 31, tab. 6, f. 29. 
Middle, Southern, and Western States, not rare. Messrs. Laporte and Gory have not 
only applied to this species the description of Fabricius, which does not at all agree with 
it, but have repeated in the synonymy references to Olivier, which had been previously 
cited under A.ornata. This species varies greatly in its elytral markings, and some- 
times in addition to those mentioned in the diagnosis there is a narrow interrupted sub- 
sutural yellow vitta. The description of Olivier seems to refer rather to this species, 
than to the one above described as A. ornata, but is still somewhat doubtful. 
10. A. variegata, nigro-znea, hirta, sub-cuneiformis, thorace latitudine plus duplo latiore, lateribus late 
rotundatis, ante basin sublatiore, sat dense punctato, ad basin medio late depresso, et foveato, utrinque oblique 
modice impresso, foveaque profunda notato, macula laterali fulva; elytris striis grosse punctatis, postice et extror- 
sum impressis, interstitiis uniseriatim punctatis, maculis basalibus humerum ambientibus, fasciisque transversis 
margine confluentibus ad suturam interruptis fulvis, postice valde serratis, apice conjunctim rotundatis; subtus 
fortiter punctata, parce pubescens. Long. -30—-35. 
Lec. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila. 6, 67, (in part.) 
Sante Fe, New Mexico, Mr. Fendler; Texas, Mr. Haldeman. Liable to be confounded 
with some of the varieties of the next species, but on comparison the thorax is more de- 
pressed at the middle of the base, and the lateral foveze are larger and accompanied with 
faint oblique impressions; the sides of the thorax are much more rounded, less declivous, 
and the posterior angles are almost obtuse: the elytra are also more flattened towards the 
base, whereby the humeral bullee become more protuberant, the sides converge very 
slightly from the base, and are obliquely narrowed for the posterior fourth: on this ac- 
count the shape becomes slightly cuneiform. The markings of the elytra are reddish yel- 
low; confluent spots surround the humerus; a broad band, more or less irregular at the 
middle, another at about three-fifths the length, and a fourth half way between the last 
and tip, extending along the margin to the tip; these bands are in some specimens con- 
nected along the margin, where they include a few small black spots; the two external 
strize unite and are abbreviated behind the humerus. 
The last segment of the abdomen, as usual is margined, with a small transverse sub- 
apical crest, alike in the three specimens before me. 
