228 REVISION OF THE BUPRESTIDZ OF THE UNITED STATES. 
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14. A. texana, subcylindrica, obscura vix enea, hirta, thorace latitudine duplo breviore, densius punctato, 
lateribus magis rotundatis, medio subcanaliculato, et ad basin impresso versus angulos foveato, elytris striis punc- 
tatis, interstitiis planis, uniseriatim punctulatis, elytris maculis pluribus parvis pallide flavis ornatis, apice oblique 
rotundatis serratis; subtus punctata, parcius in medio, parum pubescens. Long. -25. 
One specimen, Texas; Horace Haldeman, Esq. Closely related to the two following 
in general appearance, but differs by the hair being as long on the elytra as on the thorax: 
the latter is densely punctured as in the next species, but is less narrowed in front, and 
less rounded on the sides. The spots are small and irregular, three have a tendency to 
encircle the humerus, then a transverse one scarcely touching the margin, directed ob- 
liquely forwards, then three transverse ones, and a subapical dot. These spots will proba- 
bly be found to vary in other specimens. 
The last segment of the abdomen has no vestige of the subapical crest and groove 
seen in all the previous species. 
15. A. tubulus, subcylindrica, obscura vix enea, capite thoraceque longius, elytris breviter pubescentibus, 
thorace convexo, antrorsum angustato, fortiter punctato, lateribus magis rotundatis, ante basin latiore, puncto utrin- 
que basali notato, elytris striis punctatis, interstitiis uniseriatim punctulatis, guttis pluribus parvis flavis ornatis, 
postice oblique rotundatis serratis; subtus eequaliter sat punctata, parum pubescens. Long. -22—33. 
? Laporte & Gory, Mon. Buprest. 1, 11, tab. 8, fig. 15: Spinola, Ann. Hut. Soc. France, 7, 383. 
Buprestis tubulus Fabr. Syst. El. 2, 200: Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., 5, 200. 
Buprestis culta Weber, Obs. Ent. 75. 
Buprestis geranii Harris, New England Farmer, 1829, 8. 
a. Variat; maculis elytrorum plus minusve deficientibus, vel etiam immaculatis. 
@. Variat? thorace densius punctato, dorso. canaliculato, maculis elytrorum anterioribus plus minus confluen- 
tibus, (Texas. ) 
Throughout the Atlantic region of the United States: the immaculate variety was given 
me by Mr. E. T. Cresson. 
Two specimens from Texas, collected by Mr. Haldeman, agree in having the thorax 
distinctly channeled, and less coarsely but more densely punctured than in the more 
northern specimens; in one of them the spots are placed as usual, but in the other the an- 
terior ones have become confluent so as to form a narrow irregular vitta from the base to 
the middle, where it reaches a spot connected with the margin. Should the difference in 
the sculpture of the thorax prove constant, it must be separated as a distinct species. 
I have queried the reference to Laporte, because he gives the locality, Columbia, and 
states that the thorax is channeled. 
