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REVISION OF THE BUl’RESTID/TS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
A. Thorax dense punctatus, callis nitidis ornatus ------ Sp. 1. 
B. Thorax baud callosus; corpus planiusculum, supra glabrum. 
a. Corpus supra subtiliter punctatum ------ Sp. 2 6. 
b. Corpus fortius punctatum; thorax rugosus ----- Sp. 7 8. 
C. Thorax baud callosus, corpus cylindricum, supra breviter pubesceus. - - - Sp. 9. 
A. 
1. M. in iranda. Phxnops mirandus Lee. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 7, 83. 
Fort Union, New Mexico, collected by Major Sibley. 
B.—a. 
2 . M. con sputa, atra, depressa, opaca, thorace tenuiter canaliculato, subtilius transversim rugoso, lateribus 
punctato et lineis elevatis aciculato, angulis posticis longius carinatis, elytris postice oblique angustatis, confertim 
granulato-punctatis, guttis utrinque quatuor obscure croceis ornatis; subtus aeneo-nigra. Long. -47. 
Lee. Pac. It. R. Expl. and Surveys, Vol. 11, Ins. 47° Par. 44. 
Northern California, collected by Mr. J. Child, and given me by Mr. Rathvon. Nearly 
of the form of M. 1 o n g i p e s, but narrower: tips of elytra separately rounded, not acuminate: 
the spots are so arranged as to form with those of the opposite elytron a figure rounded 
anteriorly, with a straight posterior outline. 
3 . M. notata. Apalura notata Lap. & Gory, Mon. Buprest. 1, 4, tab. 1, fig. 5. 
Melanophila luteosignata Ziegler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 2, 267. 
Middle and Southern States. Varies very much in the size of the yellow spots, the 
lateral one is sometimes large and triangular, sometimes only represented by two small 
round spots: the posterior spot is also sometimes divided into two. The apex of the 
elytra is slightly acuminate. 
4. 51. longipes Gory , Mon. Buprest. 4, 75, tab. 13, fig. 74. 
Jhiprcslis longipes Say, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. 3, 164. 
Apalura appendiculata J Lap. & Gory, Mon. Buprest. 1, 8, tab. 2, fig. 14. 
Buprestis ( Oxypteris ) appendiculata Kirby, Fauna Bor. Am. 160. 
Melanophila immaculala Gory, Mon. Bupr. 4, 74, tab. 13, fig. 72. 
Pennsylvania, Kansas, Lake Superior. Very closely related to the European M. ap¬ 
pendiculata, but on comparison the thorax is less rounded on the sides, which are less 
sinuate posteriorly. As in that species the sculpture is very indistinct at the middle, and 
the small carina at the basal angles is nearly parallel wdth the margin. The elytra are 
more gradually narrowed behind, and the apex is rectilinearly attenuated from the suture 
while in M. appendiculata, the inner outline of the tip is concave, though not so much so 
as in the next species. The tip of the abdomen, as in the others of this group, is slightly 
cmarginate, with the angles acute. 
