786 FAMILY XXXIX. BUPRESTIDyE. 



regularly curved ; disk evenly granulate-punctate with a 

 small impression in front of scutellum. Elytra with mar- 

 gins serrate near tips, disk granulate-punctate. Length 

 9-12 mm. 



Marion County ; rare. June 22. One specimen 

 taVcn from window of street car. Recorded from 

 Georgia and Florida. 



:1/. appnirlkulala Fab. {loDfjiprs Say.) (Fig. 

 300), black, lengtli 7-13 ram., has l)een recorded 

 Kg 300. M^unovhik. from Cincinnati; V.aiirola .Melsh.. convex, bronzed, 

 appe/rficufatoFab. (After ignetli 4.5-6,5 mm., occurs in the "IMiddle and 



Packard in Fifth Rep. U. ^ 



s. Ent. Coinm.) Southern States." 



VII. Antiiaxia Esch. IS'Jl). (Oi-., "a flower + worthy of.") 



Small flattened species, havin-- the raesosternum narrowly di- 

 vided and separated from the metasternum by a distinct suture; an- 

 tenna serrate in lioth sexes, the pores at the ends of the joints; 

 head and thorax marked with shallow punctures with the interven- 

 ing lines forming a fine net^vorlc. The genus has been mono- 

 L':raphed Idv 



Born. — "Revision of the species of some Genera of Buprestidie." 

 in Trans. Aniei-. Ent. Soc., X, 1882, 106. 



Of tlic eight species recognized l)y Horn, four have been taken 

 in Indiana, while another may occur. 



KliY TO INDIANA SPECIES OP ANTHAXIA. 



II. Body depressed, oblong-oval ; last ventral segment punctured like the 

 ones preceding. 

 1). Tarsal claws simple or merely a little bmnder at base. 

 c. Elytra roughly granulate. 140.j. ^neogaster. 



cc. Elytra feebly sculptured, at most with small raised pcjints. 



(/. Body above and beneath uuiform brownish-bronze, feebly shin- 

 ing; elytra with fine raised points. 1496. viridifrons. 

 lid. Body nearly black with a slight purplish lustre ; front and sides 

 of thorax broadly cupreous or bronzed; elytra scarcely wriu- 

 1^'ed. 1497. viRiDiooRNis. 

 hh. Tarsal claws broadly toothed at base; color bright green, bluish or 

 purple, shiniug. ]40S quercata. 

 nil. Body slender, wedgc-shaiicd : last ventral segment much more coarsely 

 punctured than those preceding. fiavimana. 

 1495 (4628). Anthaxia ^nec(;aster I..-ip., Mon. Buprest., I, 18.37, .32. 



Rather broad, depressed. Above picoous or black, the surface with 

 faint bronze lustre; beneath, bronzed, more shining. Head densely punc- 

 tate, reticulate, front eoncave, Tlier.-ix nearly twice as broad as long, si.les 

 feebly curved in front, slightly sinuate behind: disk coarsely reticulate 

 usually with four shallow fovcic arranged in a curved transverse row. Ely- 



