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sparse, very short and fine hairs. Elytra each three and a half times 

 longer than broad, with ten faintly punctate striae, of which the sixth and 

 seventh (or seventh and eighth) from the suture terminate before the 

 others, at about the base of the apical fifth of the elytra, the others close to 

 or at the tip ; the interspaces are sparsely and irregularly punctate, the 

 equivalent of not more than two series of puncta in each interspace, each of 

 the puncta giving rise to a very short fine hair. Abdomen feebly punctate, 

 the last segment with fine, sh6rt, transverse, arcuate incisions. 



Length, 22 mm.; breadth, 8 mm. 



Fossil, Wyoming, in the bluffs by Twin Creek ; one specimen, Dr. J. 

 S. Newberry. The specimen is in the museum of Columbia College, 

 New York. 



ELATERITES Heer. 



This generic name was employed by Heer for fossil species of the 

 present family of uncertain position, and has since been used in the same 

 sense. 



Elaterites sp. 



Elaterites S2). Scudd., Contr. Canad. Palseont., II, 40, pi. 3, fig. 5 (1892). 



Similkameen River, British Columbia. 



Elaterid^ ? sp. 



Elateridm? sp. Scudd., Rep. Prog. Geol. Surv. Can., 1877-78, 182B (1879); Tert. 

 Ins. N. A., 498, pi. 2, fig. 28 (1890); Contr. Canad. Pateont., II, 40 (1892), 



Nicola River, British Columbia. 



About seventy -five Tertiary species of Buprestidse have been described, 

 figured, or indicated, which have been referred to sixteen genera, four of 

 them regarded as extinct. With a single exception, none of these species 

 come from the Pleistocene. Besides these, however, a considerable number 

 of species have been referred to the family without even generic reference, 

 from India, New South Wales, and various localities in England, including 

 one in the Pleistocene. 



