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Abdominalis Fab. Shining black, beneath blue nearly glabrous, ab- 
domen red. Head glabrous, scarcely striolate at the sides, labrum 
large, white, rounded in front, scarcely toothed; thorax subcylindric, 
nearly smooth; elytra convex, obsoletely punctured with a row of bluish 
shallow foveze, the markings are a very narrow apical lunule and a sub- © 
marginal white dot near the middle and a discoidal one behind the 
middle, the dots are more or less distinct, sometimes even wanting. | 
Legs long. Eyes large and prominent. Occurs in N. J., N. C., Ga., 
Ala., Fla. in pine forests. Length g—11 mm. 
Var. scabrosa Schaupp. Differs from abdominals only by the very 
strong and deep punctures and fovez of the elytra, so that the surface is 
quite variolous. Occurs with the type in Fla. Length 10.5 mm. 
Fab. Syst. I. 237.—Herbst, Kaefer, X, 202.—Dej. Spec. I, 140.—Lec. Ann. 
Lye. IV, 183, pl. 14, fig. 13. 
Politula Lec. Black somewhat shining, slightly tinged with blue and 
bronze on head and thorax, beneath and legs blue, abdomen ferrugin- 
ous. Head smooth; labrum white, irregularly rounded in front, tooth 
obsolete; thorax finely rugose, not longer than wide, sides broadly 
rounded. Elytra convex, oblong, finely an densely punctured, tips 
rounded, obsoletely serrate, sutural spine very small, apical lunule re— 
presented by a short white line, It is of the size and general form of 
punctulata, but quite different by its characters. Occurs in Texas, 
Length 12 mm. 
Lec. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1875, Vi, 159: 
Sommeri Mann. Dark cupreous, beneath cupreous or purple with 
the two last‘abdominal segments rufous; densely hairy at the sides. 
Head depressed between the eyes, finely coriaceous; labrum brown, ob- 
soletely toothed; thorax quadrate flat, truncate at base, sides paral- 
lel, very subtle coriaceous; elytra dilated at the middle; the markings are 
broad, fulvous and consist of a humeral lunule, a middle fascia trans- 
verse, slightly oblique, from the suture to the margin where it is 
slightly dilated anteriorly, and ofa round large dot representing the 
anterior portion of the apical lunule. Occurs in Mexico and Cal. 
(San Diego) teste Mr. H. Edwards, Length 13—14 mm. 
Mann. Bull. Mose. 1837, II, 12.—Chevr. Mag. Zool. 1841, p. 7. 
