ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
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PINE. TRUNK. 
with-each joint projecting in an an°'le along one side, whereby 
they resemble a saw. A point projects backward from the 
middle of their breast and is received into a notch in the hind 
breast, but this point is not compressed and sharp so as to slip 
into the notch with that powerful spring which it possesses in 
the snapping beetles (Elaterida:,) and hence these beetles when 
laid upon their backs are unable to throw themselves upward 
to regain their normal position. 
The short statement which has now been given of the general 
characters of these insects will suffice to distinguish them, and 
render a repetition of the same characters unnecessary under 
each of the several species which we have to notice. 
A variety ( immaculata ) of the Virginia Buprestis may some¬ 
times be met with, in which the impressed spots upon the wing 
covers are scarcely perceptible, the second raised line continuing 
of nearly its full size across the position which these spots occupy. 
219 . Liberated Buprestis, Cfmlcophora liberta , Germar. 
[Plate iii, fig. 5.] 
Very similar to the Virginia Buprestis, but always smaller 
sized, measuring from 0.75 to 0.90 in length,-with the second 
raised line of the wing covers broader than the first or inner 
line, and totally obliterated where it is crossed by the posterior 
impressed spot, its middle portion between the two impressed 
spots usually showing a few scattered punctures. 
This species is much more common in Eastern New-York than 
the Virginia Buprestis, the beetle appearing upon the leaves of 
pines throughout the summer and autumn. From a small grove 
of young pines only a few rods in extent, upwards of a hundred 
specimens were taken, the middle of last September, one or two 
1 being found upon almost every tree and bush; whilst only four 
individuals of the preceding and two of the following species 
were found in company with them. They had probably been 
bred in the numerous stumps of larger trees which had been 
cut down the year before by the side of this grove. They 
stationed themselves at the tips of the limbs, clinging to the 
leaves with their feet, with their heads inwards, their position, 
shape and size giving them a close resemblance to the young 
aments or fruit cones which were growing from the same points 
on several of the limbs; and they appeared to be eating the 
