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Maryland, Mr. J. Ph. Wild. The sculpture is precisely that of the preceding, but the 
thorax is a little wider, and the impressions, (formed as usual of two on each side,) do not 
reach the base or posterior angles, but run to the sides; the posterior angles are also more 
obtuse. The head is bright coppery, with the occiput and sometimes a small frontal spot 
black. 
The type B. viridicornis Say, (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. 3,163,) inhabits Missouri, 
and is described as having the head and thorax bright coppery, and the antennas green; 
body beneath brassy. It is probably a variety of the one here described. Of my speci¬ 
mens two are entirely blue black beneath, while the third is brassy; the elytra of the last 
mentioned specimen are black bronzed. 
10. A. v i r i d i f r o a s', fusco-senea, opaca, caplte lacte viridiaoneo, fortiter reticulato, tliorace latitudinc plus 
scsqui breviore, lateribus late rotundatis sacpe viridibus, reticulato, utrinque transversim impresso, elytris a basi 
vix angustatis postice oblique rotundatis, subtiliter rugosis. Long. 18—-20. 
Gory, Mon. Buprest, 4, 284; tab. 47, fig. 277. 
Middle and Western States. At first view resembles A. subtenea, but on compa¬ 
rison, the thorax is found less rounded on the sides, the basal angles more rectangular, 
and the head more deeply punctured. The elytra are also slightly narrowed from the 
base, thus forming a transition to the following species. 
11. A. quercata, opaca, capite fusco, macula annulari conchoidea viridiacnea, fortiter reticulato, tliorace la¬ 
titudinc sesqui breviore, postice subangustato, lateribus late rotundatis olivaceis, reticulato, utrinque pone medium 
transversim impresso, vitta dorsali latissima fusca, elytris fere parallelis, postice oblique rotundatis, subtiliter ru¬ 
gosis, olivaceis, margine vittaque obliqua integra suturam ad medium attingente fuscis; subtus viridi-nigra, abdo¬ 
minis margine laterali viridiaureo. Long. -16—-23. 
Variat tota viridi-nigra, abdominis lateribus solis viridiceneis. 
Lap. & Gory, Mon. Buprest. 2, 21; tab. 5, fig. 28. 
Buprestis quercata Fabr. Syst. El. 2, 216. 
Buprestis viridicornis I var. Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 4, 1G1. 
Middle and Southern States, abundant. Varies in colour and size, but appears to be 
always a little broader than the next species, with the sides of the thorax a little more 
rounded and the elytra less distinctly narrowed from the base. 
12. A. cuneiformis, opaea, capite viridiaoneo, fortiter reticulato, thorace latitudinc sesqui breviore, postice sub¬ 
angustato, lateribus antice paulo rotundatis viridibus, vitta dorsali fusca smpe obsoleta, reticulato, postioe utrinque 
transversim impresso, elytris a basi sensim angustatis, apice oblique rotundatis, viridibus margine et sutura pone 
medium fusccscentibus, subtiliter rugosis; subtus viridi-nigra, abdominis margine laterali parapleurisque viridimneis. 
Long. -15—23. 
Gory, Mon. Buprest. 4, 290; tab. 48, fig. 284. 
Southern and Western States. I am very doubtful whether this should be regarded as 
