154 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body of a lovely brilliant green, punctured underneath with a few pale hairs. Head confluently 

 punctured ; antenna; bronzed ; vertex channelled : prothorax transverse marked before the middle 

 with two transverse impressions, and another just above the scutellum ; grossly punctured : elytra 

 furrowed ; furrows thickly punctured ; interstices convex with fewer punctures ; apex truncated with 

 the angles terminating in a short point ; beyond the middle of the elytrum is a rather broad, espe- 

 cially next the suture, wavy orange band surrounded by a dusky blotch; beyond this and near the 

 apex is another oblique abbreviated little band of the same colour. 



Variety B. Smaller with the bands paler and narrower. 



C. With only a single band narrowest next the suture : prothorax without the anterior 

 impressions. 



xv. * Subgenus Stenuris. Kirb. 



Labrum minute, corneous, subemarginatc. 



Palpi with the last joint subsecuriform. 



Rhinarium indistinct. 



Nose with a sinus taken out. 



AntenncB serrated internally with the joints shorter and more prominent : third joint not longer than 



the fourth. 

 Elytra attenuated at the apex. 

 Tarsi with a sucker on all but the claw joint, first joint not wholly covered by it. 



Buprestis lurida, may be regarded as the type of this subgenus, which may be known by the 

 shortness of the joints of its distinctly serrated antenna?, and attenuated apex of its elytra. B. an- 

 lenuata, though near it, belongs to a different subgenus, with nearly filiform antenna;, and with the 

 first joint of the tarsi nearly covered by the sucker. 



(207) 6. * Buprestis (Stenuris) divaricata. (Say.) Divaricated B. Stenuris. 



Buprestis divaricata. Say. Journ. Acad. Phil. Ill, i, 163, 9. 

 Length of the body 10 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby ; I received both sexes also from Massachusets 

 by the kindness of Dr. Harris. 



