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shape of a right angled triangle, the line bounding its outer side running 
directly forward instead of obliquely inward and forward, each spot being also 
more broad than long. The rough depression which extends forward from 
these spots to the anterior angles of the thorax has in its middle a well marked, 
elevated, smooth spot, which is oblong and placed obliquely, with an oblique 
groove on its outer side separating it from a smooth and somewhat triangular 
spot on the outer margin, which is more distinct in this than in either of the 
preceding species, and produces a slight undulation of the outer edge, this 
edge being almost rectilinear with the opposite sides parallel with each other 
two-thirds of their length, and then abruptly or angularly inclining inwards 
to the anterior angles. The wing covers have the elevated lines much broken 
and irregular, resembling those of the preceding species, though on a particu¬ 
lar examination several differences will be noticed, which it is scarcely neces¬ 
sary to dwell upon in this place, as what has already been stated sufficiently 
distinguishes this species. 
222. Harris’s Buprestis, Chrysobothris Ifarrisii, Hentz. (Coleoptera 
Buprestidae.) 
Appearing on the trees in May and becoming most common 
about the middle of June, a small beetle 0.32 long, of a brilliant 
blue-green color with black antennae and feet, and in the male 
the sides of the thorax and the thighs copper colored, its sur¬ 
face punctured, with a groove on the middle of the thorax and 
two indentations near the base of each wing cover, slightly 
separated by a raised line, the inner one running into a groove 
which extends along the suture to its tip. Its larva living 
under the bark of young trees and small limbs. 
I know not why this beautiful little species is placed under 
the genus Trachypteris in the Catalogue of Coleoptera lately 
published by the Smithsonian Institution, since it so evidently 
pertains to the genus Chrysobothris. 
223. Golden Buprestis, Buprestis aurulenta, Linmeus. (Coleoptera. 
Buprestidae.) 
Appearing upon pine and spruce trees in May and June, a 
brilliant and sparkling copper-red beetle 0.55 to 0.70 long, its 
wing covers marked with a broad brilliant bluish green stripe 
on each and with four elevated smooth lines in which are several 
deep punctures, the two outer lines nearly or quite united at 
their hind ends and thd exterior middle one a fourth shorter, 
the depressed spaces between these lines twice as wide as the 
lines and rough from coarse confluent punctures; its thorax 
