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cated : on each of the ventral segments of the abdomen the sides are marked with a triangular 

 orange-coloured spot, those on the anal segment being larger and irregular : the coxa? also and under- 

 side of the thighs are partly of the same colour. 



Variety B. Without the yellow line of confluent dots at the base of the elytra, and with the 

 spots arranged longitudinally indistinct. 



C. With all the ventral orange spots large and irregular. 



D. Front with a large central spot. Base of the belly bluish. 



E. Elytra with only yellow spots. Front as in D. 



F. With only one distinct yellow spot. 



The most certain distinction of this varying species is the alternately convex and plane interstice of 

 the furrows of the elytra. 



(205) 4. Buprestis (Anoplis) lineata. (Fabricius.) Streaked B. Anoplis. 



Buprestis lineata. Fab. Syst. Ent. 217, 10 ; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 192, 37. Oliv. Ent. ii, 32, 28, 33, t. viii, /. 80. Linn. Stjst. 

 Nat. Gmel. iv, 1928, 40. Herbst. Ins. ix, 284, 209. 



Length of the body 9 lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Captain Hall. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body above black-bronzed, underneath bronzed, punctured. Head below and mouth orange : 

 mandibles black with a basilar orange spot; front obscurely banded and dotted with the same colour; 

 vertex channelled : prothorax dilated posteriorly ; anterior angles deep orange : elytra slightly fur- 

 rowed : furrows scarcely punctured ; interstices flat, grossly punctured ; truncated at the apex and 

 armed with three minute teeth, one nearly obsolete ; on each elytrum are two obscure deep orange 

 stripes, the outer one diverging towards the base so as to pass below the shoulders, the inner one 

 subinterrupted, widest towards the base, and not reaching the apex : fore-breast anteriorly orange. 



(206) 5. Buprestis (Anoplis) fasciata. (Fabricius.) Banded B. Anoplis. 



Buprestis fasciata. Fab. Ent. Syst. ii, 191, 23; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 191, 31. Oliv. Ent. ii, 32, 21, 22, t. ix, / 92. Herbst. 

 Ins. ix, 162, 90, t. cxlv, /. 12. Say. Amer. Ent. ii, t. xxvi, /. 2. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1927, 42. 



Length of the body 7—8 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby; B and C, in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



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