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covers divaricate or spread apart a little at the tips. (Plate 
II. Fig. 7.) These beetles are copper-colored, sometimes 
brassy above, and thickly covered with little punctures ; the 
thorax is slightly furrowed in the middle ; the ^wing-covers 
are marked with numerous fine irregular impressed lines and 
small oblong square elevated black spots ; they taper very 
much behind, and the long and narrow tips are blunt-pointed ; 
the middle of the breast is furrowed; and the males have 
a little tooth on the under-side of the shanks of the inter¬ 
mediate legs. They measure from seven to nine tenths of 
an inch. These beetles may be found sunning themselves 
upon the limbs of cherry and peach trees during the montlis 
of June, July, and August. 
The borer of the hickory has alreadv been described. It 
is transformed to a beetle which appears to be 
the Buprestis QDicerca) lurida ^ (Fig. 23) of 
Fabricius. It is of a lurid or dull brassy color 
above, bright copper beneath, and thickly punc¬ 
tured all over ; there are numerous irrecmlar 
impressed lines, and several narrow elevated 
black spots on the wing-covers, the tip of each of which ends 
with two little points. It measures from about six to eight 
tenths of an inch in length. This kind of Buprestis appears 
during the greater part of the summer on the trunks and 
limbs of the hickory. 
-■ Buprestis QChrysohotJiris') dentipes^ ^4) of Germar, 
so named from the little tooth on the under-side 
of the thick fore legs, inhabits the trunks of oak- 
trees. It completes its transformations and comes 
out of the trees between the end of ^lav and the 
1' 
first of July. It is oblong, oval, and flattened, 
of a bronzed brownish or purplish-black color 
above, copper-colored beneath, and rough like shagreen with 
* Buprestis obscura, F., found in the Middle and Southern States, closely resem¬ 
bles the lurida. 
t Buprestis characteristica, Harris. N. E. Farmer, Vol. VIH. p. 2, 
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Fig. 23. 
