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numerous punctures ; the thorax is not so wide as the hinder 
part of the body, its hinder margin is hollowed on both sides 
to receive the rounded base of each wing-cover, and there 
are two smooth elevated lines on the middle ; on each wing- 
cover there are three irregular smooth elevated lines, which 
are divided and interrupted by large thickly punctured im- 
pressed spots, two of which are oblitpie ; the tips are round- 
ed. Length from one half to six tenths of an inch. 
Buprestis ( Chrysobothris ) femorata (Fig. 25) of Fabricius 
Fig 25> has the first pair of thighs toothed beneath, like 
the preceding, which it resembles also in its form 
and general appearance. It is of a greenish-black 
color above, with a brassy polish, which is very 
' distinct in the two large transverse impressed spots 
on each wing-cover j and the thorax has no smooth elevated 
lines on it. It measures from four tenths to above half of an 
inch in length. Its time of appearance is from the end of 
May to the middle of July, during which it may often be 
seen, in the middle of the day, resting upon or flying round 
the trunks of white-oak trees, and recently cut timber of the 
same kind of wood. I have repeatedly taken it upon and 
under the bark of peach-trees also. The grubs or larvae 
bore into the trunks of these trees. 
The Buprestis ( Chrysobothris ) fulvo guttata* (Fig. 26), or 
Fig so. tawny-spotted Buprestis, first described by me in 
the eighth volume of the “New England bann- 
er,” is proportionally shorter and more convex 
than the two foregoing species. It is black and 
bronzed above, and brassy beneath ; the thorax is 
covered with very fine wavy transverse lines, and is some- 
* Mr. Kirby has re-described and figured this insect under tho name of Buprestis 
( Trachypteru ) Drummondi , in the fourth volume of the u Fauna 'Boreali- Ameri- 
cana.” 7 
[ 7 Buprestis (Chrysobothris) fulvoyuttatn does not belong to Chrysobothris but to 
Melanophila, Esch. The anterior thighs are not armed with a tooth, and the base 
of the thorax is truncate. — Lec.J 
