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Packard. 
No. 
2, 
p. 30 
684 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
14. Buprestis rusticorum Kirby. 
This is an abundant insect in the pine woods of Oregon and Wash- 
ington, and appears to range eastward into British America. We 
have found it in pine woods at Manitou, Colo., July 10, while it is not 
uncommon in New England, Mr. George Hunt finding it at Provideuce, 
K. I. The body is brown, with au olive-green tint. Head and thorax 
punctured. Each wing-cover with five ridges, four of them well 
marked and smooth, the interspaces with scattered punctures. On the 
head between the eyes are five yellow spots; two simple 
dots, two long spots on the orbits, sending two projections 
outward, and a line in front sends three projections up- 
wards. Two unequal yellow spots under the eyes. Lab- 
rnii) and labium yellow. Fine orange-yellow spots on each 
side of the end of the abdomen beneath. Length, 0.65 
to 0.92 inch. Le Conte also adds that this species is 
nearly allied to Buprestis maculiventris, which occurs iu 
the northeast from Pennsylvania to Newfoundland. 
Regarding this beetle, Mr. W. H. Harrington remarks 
in the Transactions of the Ottawa Field Naturalist's Club, 
The last of the Buprestians which I have to describe is, in my opinion, the gein of 
them all, so brilliant is it, especially in the sunlight. It is also the smallest, the 
males only averaging four-sixteenths of an inch in length, and the females five six- 
teenths. The larvre inhabit young saplings and the small limbs of larger trees. The 
beetles are found on the trees during June and July, seeming to delight in the hottest 
and brightest days of these months, and displaying in such weather great activity 
whereas on a cool, cloudy day they are much less alert. When among the leaves 
they are, from their color, very difficult to see, aud if shaken off upon a beating-net 
they take wing with such swiftness as very frequently to escape capture. The 
instant they drop upon the net they are off like a flash of emerald light. The color 
of the female is a uniform vivid green or blue-green, with the exception of the 
autenme and feet, which are black, but the male has the thighs and sides of the 
thorax coppery or bronzed, and is thus easily distiguished, as well as by his smaller 
size. 
15. Yellow-dotted Buprestis. 
Melanophila fulvoguttata ( Harris). 
Appearing upon pines in June, a more flattened beetle than the foregoing, 0.30 
to 0.43 long, of a brassy black color with three pale yellow dots on each wing cover 
placed towards the hind part and equidistant from each other, the hindmost ones 
nearest the suture and the middle ones farthest from it; the fore ends of the wing- 
covers moderately rounded and fitting into corresponding concavities in the base of 
the thorax; the whole surface covered with shallow rough punctures ruuning 
together transversely and somewhat resembling the grained side of morocco leather, 
and the thorax having an iudeutatiou on the middle of its base like the impression 
of the head of a pin. (Harris's Treatise, p. 44.) 
