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REVISION OF THE BUl’KESTIO® OF THE UNITED STATES. 
B.—d. 
10. D. 1 e p i d a, elongata, nureo-mnea, tliorace lalitudine brcviore, autrorsum parum angustato, lateribus anticc 
late rotuDdatis, confluenter punctato, trisulcato, vittis quatuor elevatis laevibus signato, elytiis dense punctatis, 
stria suturali distincta, sutura clevata, iuterstitiis alternis spatiis clongatis nitidis elevatis ornatis, posticc oblique 
longius attenuatis et paulo prolongatis, bideutatis. Long. 60. 
Mas abdominis segmento ventrali ultimo tridentato, dente intermedio breviorc late truncato. Femina ano tri- 
dentato, dente intermedio acuto. 
Lee. Froc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1857, 7. 
Buprestispvgionata J Lap. & Gory, 2, P9, tab. 2C, 136. 
Alabama, Prof. Haldeman; Pennsylvania, Rev. D. Ziegler. A very beautiful and dis¬ 
tinct species. This and the next differ from those of the previous division by the metas¬ 
ternum being almost flat, while the prosternum is deeply sulcate, and the first segment 
of the abdomen is moderately so. The under surface is coppery, densely and coarsely 
punctured at the sides, nearly smooth, or sparsely punctured at the middle. The middle 
tibite are entirely straight in both sexes. The head has a V shaped callus between the 
eyes and two occipital ones with an intervening channel. 
11 I), gpreta, miuus eloDgata, cinereo-mnea, pruinosa, tliorace latitudiue sesqui breviore, ad medium latiore, 
lateribus antice rotundatis postice sinuatis, iuxquali, rude punctato, callis nitidis omato, medio polito, sulco dorsali 
antice profundo, postice subbiseriatim punctato, elytris dense punctatis, sutura elevata sublaavi variegata, iuterstitiis 
callis oblongis obscuris elevatis ornatis, postice oblique attenuatis paulo prolongatis, bidentatis. Long. -60—-66. 
Mas segmento ventrali ultimo tridentato, dente medio breviorc lato truncato. Femina segmento ventrali ultimo 
tridentato, dente medio acuto. 
Buprestis sprela Gory, Mon. Buprest. 4, 108, tab. 19, fig. 105. 
Dicerca molitor Mels. Froc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 2, 143. 
Middle States, not common. I incorrectly placed Melsheimer’s references as synonyms 
to the next species in my index to Laporte and Gory’s species, (Proc. Acad. 1857, 7,) 
being deceived by the wretched description of these last mentioned authors. The front 
between the eyes is marked with a smooth concave callus in the middle and a smaller one 
each side, forming an irregular elevated line: the thorax is deeply impressed each side be¬ 
hind the middle, and the surface is very uneven at the sides: the external costae are irre¬ 
gular and interrupted, and the dorsal canal is deeper at the apex; the smooth costae limit¬ 
ing it are broad. The middle tibiae are straight in both sexes. The under surface is 
coarsely and densely punctured at the sides, nearly smooth in the middle: the metaster¬ 
num is scarcely channeled, and the broad deep groove of the prosternum is coarsely punc¬ 
tured. 
This species has a more robust form than the others of group B, being proportioned al¬ 
most as D. punctulata, but differs from those of group C by the strongly bidentate elytra. 
