BUPRESTIDiE. 99 



BUPRESTIS Uim6. 



A nearly world-wide genus, primarily north temperate, with numerous 

 species, about a dozen and a half of which are North American. Half a 

 dozen fossil species have been described from the Rhenish coal, three from 

 British Columbia, and species have also been indicated at Aix and in amber, 

 besides the Pleistocene of England. 



BuPRESTIS TERTIARIA. 



Biiprestis tertiaria Scudd., Rep. Prog. Geol. Surv. Can., 1877-78, 180-181B (1879); 

 Tert. Ins. N. A., 493-494, pi. 2, fig. 23 (1890); Coutr. Canad. Palffiont., II, 

 35-36 (1892). 



Nicola River, British Columbia. 



BUPKESTIS SAXIGENA. 



Buprestis saxigena Scudd., Rep. Prog. Geol. Surv. Can., 1877-78. 181B (1879); Tert. 

 Ins. N. A., 49.1r-495, pi. 2, figs. 24, 25 (1890); Contr. Canad. Palseont., II, 

 36-37 (1892). 



Nicola River, British Columbia. 



Buprestis sepulta. 



Buprestis septilta '^cvM.. , Rep. Prog. Geol. Surv. Can., 1877-78, 181B (1879); Tert. 

 Ins. N. A., 496, pi. 2, fig. 26 (1890); Contr. Canad. Palaiont., II, 37 (1892). 



Nicola River, British Columbia. 



BUPRESTITES Heer. 



Heer has given this name to fossil Buprestidse of uncertain position, 

 and it has been used also by Geibel in a similar way. Eleven species have 

 been described from the earlier Tertiaries, all but one from Europe. 



BuPRESTiTES heeri nom. nov. 



Bwprestites agriloides Heer. Flora foss. Grcenl.. II. 144, pi. 109, figs. 11, lib (1883). 



This is entirely distinct from the Oeningen species Heer described in 

 1882 (Verhandl. holl. maatsch. wetensch., XVI, 90, pi. 7, fig. 24) under 



