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Europe and Japan and has been reported from northern America, 

 Alaska, H. B. T., Canada, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Vir- 

 ginia and New Mexico in pine and fir. These references, how- 

 ever, probably relate to D. cunericanus. P. septentrionus Mann, 

 Lee., etc., is a synonym of autograph us. 



976 ( ). DUYOCCETES PICE^E Hopkins, 1915-a, 51. 



Oblong, elliptical. Reddish-brown; pronotum and elytra clothed with 

 long, erect hairs, becoming longer toward sides and declivity; front 

 densely clothed with long yellow hairs. Pronotum finely granulate 

 throughout, excepting a faint median line. Elytral striae not impressed, 

 punctures in approximate rows; interspaces equally punctured, causing 

 the appearance of confused punctures; declivity steep, somewhat flattened, 

 interspace 1 faintly elevated, 2 flat, faintly impressed, each with a faint 

 row of granules, stria? 1 and 2 distinctly punctured. Male, front con- 

 vex, with posterior median shining space and a few long hairs toward the 

 sides; declivity slightly more impressed, with interspacial granules 

 coarser. Length 2.3 2.75 mm. 



North Carolina to Canada, westward to Michigan. Closely 

 allied to D. affabcr Mann. 



977 (9117). DRYOCCETES AFFABER Mann., 1852, 339. 



Oblong. Brown, almost shining, pilose with yellowish hairs. Thorax 

 semi-elliptical, narrowed in front, almost equally roughly granulate, 

 slightly more asperate in front. Elytra feebly striate-punctate, intervals 

 somewhat irregularly punctate, apex obtusely rounded, impressed especi- 

 ally on declivity in subsutural stria. Length 3 mm. 



Quebec, Virginia, Lake Superior, Colorado and Alaska, B. C. 

 Food plants, Pimis, Picea and Abies. Bores in terminal shoots 

 of white pine and cones of red pine. (Pierce.} D. plcece is dis- 

 tinguished by its smaller size and distribution. 



XIV. AMBROSIODMUS Hopkins, 1915-a. 

 (Gr., "ambrosia" 4- "eater.") 



Joint 2 of fnnicle as long as 3 and 4 together, 5 much broader; 

 club nearly as broad as long, with sutures on anterior and poste- 

 rior faces ; eyes short, elliptical, emarginate. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES OF AMBROSIODMUS. 



a. Antennal club with two sutures on posterior face; elytral declivity 



unarmed. 978. LINDER^E. 



aa. Antennal club with one suture on posterior face; elytral declivity 



armed. 



1). Elytra with strial punctures coarse. 979. LECONTEI. 



66. Elytra with strial punctures fine. 980. TACHYGRAPHUS. 



978. ( -). AMBROSIODMUS LIXDER.E Hopkins, 1915-a, 56. 



Female, body elliptical, light reddish-brown. Pronotum slightly 

 broader than long, sides faintly rounded, anterior margin obtusely 



