FAMILY BCPRESTID.E. 83 



Buprestidse. 



Gehus BUPRESTIS (Linn.). 



Antenna? subfiliform, serrated in both sexes ; basal joint elongate, subelavated ; terminal 

 one small. Palpi, maxillary subfiliform, the terminal joint slightly tumid ; labial, 

 minute, the labrum attenuated and slightly emarginated in front. Mandibles slightly 

 bifid at the apex : maxilla? small, somewhat bilobed at the tip. Head deflexed, short, 

 retuse : thorax with the posterior margin closely applied to the base of the elytra ; 

 the latter elongated, trigonate, entire or serrated : legs slender ; tarsi with the pe- 

 nultimate joint bilobed (Stephens). 



A. Elytra dentate, and serrate at the apex. 



Buprestis (Chalcophora) yirginica (Drury). (Plate v, fig. 5.) 



Form oval : color dark brown and sometimes almost black, with brassy metallic reflec- 

 tions, more distinct beneath. Surfaces, above and beneath punctured ; above, sculp- 

 tured in interrupted parallel lines. Top of the head deeply indented longitudinally ; 

 indentation linear, and extending to the front. Thorax marked by three distinct 

 eminences, one of which is central. Elytra margined, sculptured or interruptedly 

 ridged ; base coarsely plicated ; outer angle rounded and serrate ; inner angle ter- 

 minated by a very short spine : the under side is furnished with a short whitish down. 

 It is nearly an inch in length, and quite robust. 

 The larva? inhabit pine trees, to which they are very injurious. The perfect insect ap- 

 pears in June. 



Buprestis fclvo-guttata (Harris). B. americana (Kirby). 

 Above black bronze ; underneath metallic, glossy, punctured. Scutellum very small. 

 Thorax marked by waving transverse lines. Elytra granulated and ornamented with 

 six yellowish spots, but variable in number ; tops rounded : underside of the ab- 

 domen, near the extremity, thickly punctured. Length 3- to 4-tenths of an inch. 

 The forelegs in this species are without teeth. It is the B. drummondi of the fourth vo- 

 lume of the Fauna Boreali Americana. 



Found upon trunks of the white pine in June. 



Buprestis (Anoplis) fasciata (Fab.). (Plate v, fig. 1.) 



Flattened above. Color fine brilliant green, nearly of one uniform tint, punctured above 



and beneath. Mandibles stout and black : eyes black, ovate : thorax has four slight 



depressions : scutellum small and triangular. Elytra finely lined, and marked by 



transverse yellow bands : the first is a mere oblong transverse spot, near the middle ; 



