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covers are brilliant blue, which color is margined on each side and at the base with 
golden yellbw tinged with green, the suture and outer margin being burnished cop- 
pery red. On each wing- cover are about eight rows of large deep punctures placed 
closely together, and some of them united or confluent, and between each of these 
rows is a series of smaller round punctures. Their tips are cut off transversely, and 
on the side next to the suture is a minute projecting tooth. The scutel is circular, 
deeply concave, and green, with its sides blue. The thorax is covered with close, 
deep, coarse punctures, which are more dense and confluent on each side. The head 
is rough from similar confluent punctures, with a slender, smooth, elevated line in its 
middle. The antennae are black with the basal joints coppery red. The under side 
is burnished coppery with the sutures of the abdomen green. (Fitch.) 
12. Spotted- winged buprestis. 
Buprestis Jineata Fabricius. 
A shining brassy-black beetle, sometimes blue-black or dark bottle-green, of the 
same shape with the preceding and .45 to .65 long, each wing-cover with from three 
to six pale tawny yellow spots of irregular shape and very variable, the mouth and 
throat often and sometimes the face of same color, and also a spot on each side of the 
last segment of the abdomen beneath ; the wing-covers with several impressed lines 
and a row of punctures on each of the interstices between them, the thorax with 
coarser close punctures and a single large one on the middle of its hind edge. (Fitch.) 
14 1 have met with this beetle, in July, on pines growing at a distance 
from any other trees, an evidence that it had been bred from them. 
The spots on its wing-covers are extremely variable, being alike in no 
two specimens. 
u The more usual form is slightly larger, measuring .60 to .75 in length, 
and the wing-covers with two tawny orange stripes on each, the inner 
one of which is widest at its base and does not reach to the tip. Here 
also the last segment of the abdomen beneath has a tawny orange spot 
on each side, and the throat, mouth, and face, and a stripe on each 
side of the thorax are yellow, varied in places with red." (Fitch.) It 
occurs not infrequently in the Middle and Southern States according 
to Le Conte. I have found, in company with Mr. Oalder, the -elytra 
of this beetle under the bark of the white and pitch pine, in Provi- 
dence, R. I. 
13. Buprestis maculiventris Say. 
Mr. W. Hague Harrington, of Ottawa, gives the following account of 
this beetle in the Transactions of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, 
No. 2, p. 30 : 
Buprestis maculiventris is a brassy-brown species, from five-eighths to six-eighths 
of an inch long, common upon both old and young trees in June and July. I am 
inclined to think it feeds also upon spruce, as while in Cape Breton last August I 
noticed a couple of these beetles in a section wooded almost entirely with spruce, 
pines being rarely met with. It is easily distinguished by the yellowish-red spots 
on each side of the segments of the abdomen beneath, and by smaller spots. of the 
same color upon the shoulders of the thorax and upon the face. Its wing-covers are 
thinner and softer than those of preceding species, and often have a rumpled appear- 
ance as if bent in two or three places. It is inferior iu beauty to our other Bupres- 
tidae. I have found several of the beetles emerging from the pine timbers of the 
Maria street bridge about the end of June. 
