[October 1883 EULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC: VOL. VI. 63 
N. M. Hentz’ Descriptions of Coleoptera. 
(Reprint from Journ. Ac. Phila. 1827, V, 373-375.) 
[373.|—Descropiion of some new species of Norta AMERICAN Insects. 
By N. M, Heyrz, professor of madern languages at the Univ.rsity of 
North Carolina. Read October 24, 1826. 
The insects of which the description follows are rare ; of the four, only 
one has been found more than once by myse’f, and the others were un- 
known to several studious entomologists, which is an additional conside- 
ration for suf posing them to be new. 
BUPRESMIs: 
B. harrisst. Green ; eyes black ; antennee black towards the extremity; 
tarsi black ; elytra with two impressions near the base, the internal one 
uniting with a groove, which follows the suture. 
Description. —Body bright green, punctured: head punctured: eyes 
black : antennae black, tinged with green near the base: orax green, 
punctured with a longitudinal impressed line: e/y/ra with a deep impres- 
sion at the base, divided in two by a nearly obsolete raised line ; a raised 
line, forming, with the suture, a deep groove, which terminates at the 
apex ; an impression nearer the apex than the middle, formed by the ter- 
' mination of the obsolete line; a diagonal raised line, and another near the 
margin ; in all four raised lines : pecfus, postpectus, and ven‘er green, punc- 
tured : fee/ green: anterior thighs with a large tooth : /ars7 neaily black. 
Length accompanies the drawing. Fig. 1. [9 mm.] 
[3'74. ] Observations._Found in the month of May, in Massachusetts. 
EATERS 
E. vernalts Bright, black, elytra yellow, striate, with five bluish-black 
spots, one common at the base. 
_ Description—Body bright black, punctured ; antennae black :; head 
and ¢horax black, punctured : e/y/rx yellow, with strice formed by punc- 
tures, each having three bluish-black spots, of which one at the base is 
common with the other ; pectus, fos/petus and venier black, punctured : 
Jeet black ; farsi? rufous near the extremity. 
Length accompanies the drawing. Fig. 2. [10 mm. ] 
Observations. —Vhis insect, found in May, in the west of Pennsylvania, 
was new to Mr. Say. Dr. Harris, and all the other entomologists whom 
I consulted. 
