682 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
T. B. Ash ton informs me that he once found the fragments of one of 
these beetles in the interior of a pine log. I hare met with it, in two 
instances, stationed at the tips of the limbs of young spruce trees in 
my yard, and it is probable that in its perfect state it feeds upon the 
tender young buds of the pine and the spruce." (Fitch.) 
Mr. George Hunt tells OS that it occurs on 
the white pine and yellow pine (P. rigida) in 
northern New York. 
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northern New York. 
Le Conte states that it inhabits the Mid- 
dle States, Canada, and the Lake Superior 
region. It varies in brilliancy of color; tue 
male is narrower than the female, and has 
the tip of the abdomen more distinctly trun- 
cate, or, rather, more broadly rounded. 
Allied to this species is Buprestis lauta 
(Le Conte), which is abundant in Washiug- 
L ton and Oregon; while we have received it 
from Utah, through Mr. J. L. Barfoot, cura 
tor of the Salt Lake Museum. It has also 
been detected by Prof. F. H. Snow at Santa 
Fe, N. Mex. The male is a little narrower, 
fiq. 223.-Bu P re8tis striata.- says Le Conte, than the female, but the tip 
of the abdomen is somewhat truncate in both. 
Buprestis radians (Le Conte) also inhabits Oregon. It is shaped like 
the male of B. lauta, but may be known by the very hairy front and 
prosternum. The tip of the abdomen is somewhat truncate. 
Nearly allied to the two last named is B. adjecta (Le Conte) from 
Oregon. It is said by Le Conte to be broader even than the female of 
B. lauta, with intermediate elevated ridges ou the elytra; the tip of 
the latter is distinctly bidentate, while the abdomen is less strougly 
punctured and scarcely truncate. 
11. The ultramarine buprestis. 
Buprestis ultramarina Say. 
This species has been found by Fitch in the middle of July in a forest 
of pines and other trees, and is probably a pine insect. It is said by 
Le Conte to be a broader form than B. decora Fabricius, to which it is 
allied, with the intervals of the elytra less irregularly puuctured, espe- 
cially towards the suture, with the tips rouuded, or hardly truncate, 
not bideutate as in that species. The abdomen is broadly rounded at 
the apex. The following description is quoted from Fitch's Fourth 
Report : 
The Ultramarine Buprestis is half an iuch long and of a brilliant green color tinged 
with golden yellow, the sides of the thorax beiug pure golden, with also a stripe 
along the middle, where is a very slight wide groove, scarcely obvious. The win«j;- 
