786 



FAMILY XXXIX. BUPRESTIDJE. 



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 

 taken from window of street car. Recorded from 

 Georgia and Florida, 



M, appendienlata Fab. (longipcs Say.) (Fig. 

 300), black, length 7-13 mm., has been recorded 

 Kg 300. MdanophUa from Cincinnati; M.ceneola Melsh., convex, bronzed, 

 EwdtS R ^ ^ 4.5-6,5 mm., occurs in the "Middle and 

 s. Ent. Comm.) Southern States." 



VII. Anthaxia Esch. 1829. (Gi\, ' ' a flower + worthy of,") 



Small flattened species, having the mesosternum narrowly di- 

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

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

 head and thorax marked with shallow punctures with the interven- 

 ing lines forming a fine network. The genus has been mono- 

 graphed by 



Horn. — "Revisio7i of the species of some Genera of Buprestiche, " 

 in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, X, 1882, 106. 



Of the eight species recognized by Horn, four have been taken 

 in Indiana, while another may occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF ANTHAXIA. 



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

 ones preceding. 

 &. Tarsal claws simple or merely a little broader at base. 

 c. Elytra roughly granulate. 1495. ^neogastee. 



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



d. Body above and beneath uniform brownish-bronze, feebly shin- 

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

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

 of thorax broadly cupreous or bronzed; elytra scarcely wrin- 

 kled. 1497. vieidicoenis. 

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

 purple, shining. 1498. quebcata. 

 aa. Body slender, wedge-shaped; last ventral segment much more coarsely 

 punctured than those preceding. elayimana. 



1495 (4628). Antthaxia ^neogastek Lap., Mon. Buprest., I, 1S37, 32. 



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

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

 tate, reticulate, front concave. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides 

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

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



