BUPRESTIDiE. 159 



* * Apex of the elytra entire. 



(212) 11. * Buprestis ( Trachypteris) Dkummondi. Drummond's B.Trachypteris. 



B. T. (Drummondij supra nigro-anea, svbtus (enea, nitida; prothorace varie acuducto disco fere concentrice ; elytris punctula- 



tissimis integerrimis, gultis tribus lutcis triangulo ordinatis. 

 Drummond's B. Tracbypteris, above black-bronzed, underneath bronzed, glossy : protborax variously acuducted, in the disk 



nearly concentrically; elytra very numerously and minutely punctured, very entire; with three yellow dots 



arranged in a triangle. 



PLATE II, FIG. 8. Var. B. 

 Length of the body 4f lines. 



Several specimens taken in Lai. 54°. and 65°. and in the Rocky Mountains. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This elegant little species at first sight might be taken for a small variety of B. T. decastigma, 

 hut upon a nearer inspection it will be found to belong to a different division of the subgenus, and 

 other very peculiar characters will be discovered which distinguish it from that and every other 

 described species. 



Body as it were reticulated with numerous punctures, bronzed, more obscurely on the upper sur- 

 face, more glossy on the lower. Head very thickly punctured, obsoletely and slenderly channelled; 

 apex of the nose levigated : prothorax transverse, with a double sinus in the basilar margin ; obso- 

 letely channelled, impressed on each side nearer the base, covered with innumerable scratches variously 

 drawn, those of the disk being somewhat concentric ; sides punctured : scutellum very minute, trans- 

 verse : elytra very thickly punctured, and also exhibiting an appearance of granulations, slanting at 

 the apex; the disk of the elytra, nearer the apex than the base, is marked with three yellow roundish 

 dots arranged in an obtuse-angled triangle with the vertex towards the side : underside of the 

 abdomen towards the anus less thickly punctured. 



Variety B. Elytra with four yellow dots, a minute one, but varying in size, being placed out- 

 side the anterior one. 



(213) 12. Buprestis (Trachypteris) umbellatarum. (Olivier.) 



Umbel-frequenting B. Trachypteris: 



Buprestis umbellatarum. Fabr. Mant. i, 183, 74; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 210, 131? Oliv. Ent. ii, 32, 81, 112, t. iii,/. 23? 

 Herbst. Ins. ix, 257, 174, t. cliii,/. 6. Illig. Mag. ii, 2o0, 18, iv, 94, 131. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1936, 90? 



Length of the body 2f lines. 



Several specimens taken near Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. 



