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PINE. TRUNK. 
probably be a depredator upon the same kinds of vegetation 
with that. 
The Ultramarine Buprestis is half an inch long and of a brilliant green color 
tinged with golden yellow, the sides of the thorax being pure golden and also 
a stripe along the middle where is a very slight wide groove, scarcely obvious. 
The wing covers are brilliant blue, which color is margined on each side and at 
the base with golden yellow tinged with green, the suture and outer margin 
being burnished coppery red. On each wing cover are about eight rows of 
large deep punctures placed closely together, and some of them united or con¬ 
fluent, 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 
antenna) are black with the basal joints coppery red. The under side is bur¬ 
nished coppery with the sutures of the abdomen green. 
225. Spotted-winged Buprestis, Buprestis maculipennis, Gory. 
A shining brassy-black beetle, sometimes blue-black or dark 
bottle-geeen, of the same shape with the preceding and 0.45 to 
0.65 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 the 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 punc¬ 
tures 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. 
I have met with this 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; and it is quite probable, as 
our American entomologists have supposed, that this is only a 
variety of the following. 
22G- Orange-lined Buprestis, Buprestis lineata, Fabricius- 
Very like the preceding species, but slightly larger, measur¬ 
ing 0.G0 to 0.75 in length, and the wing covers with two tawny 
orange stripes on each, the inner one of which is widest at its 
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