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The two connate segments ai'e quite distinct at the sides in this 

 species, which is easily known from all others by the punctate 

 thorax. 



A. vittato collis (Rand.), Bost. J. 



Elongate, black, opaque, head deepl}' and broadly sulcate, 

 bright cupreous, thickly clothed with orange pubescence ; thorax 

 subtrausverse, rugulose, hind angles not carinate, bright cupreous, 

 sides and deep medial channel clothed with orange pubescence ; 

 scutellum carinate; elj'tra closely granulate, opaque; beneath 

 subcupreous, finely and closel}' puuctulatc, withvcr}' short pubes- 

 cence; prosternum concave behind, the hind angles acutely ele- 

 vated. L. .35. Massachusetts. 



% 1st ventral segment faintly, 2d distinctly impressed ; last 

 segment truncate or faintly emarginate. 



Dorsal carina strongly projecting. 



A. putillus, Say, Tr. Phil. Soc, vi. 162. 



Elongate, seneous, shining, head sulcate (but not deeply so) ; 

 thorax broader than long, sides oblique, middle faintly channelled, 

 angles not carinate ; scutellum carinate, elytra broadly grooved 

 along the suture ; prosternum deeply sinuate in front, abdominal 

 segments sparingly punctate, pygidiura not carinate. L. .14. 

 Canada (Horn). 



This agrees very well with Saj-'s description, as pointed out to 

 me by Di*. Horn. 



Taphrocerus agriloides, sp. n. 



Subelongate, a^ntious, head very sparingly punctate, with an 

 impressed line on the front ; thorax alutaceous, transverse, sides 

 straight, coarsely and sparsely punctate, base with a rounded 

 median lobe ; elj'tra deepl}' punctate striate, the punctures decreas- 

 ing towards the apex. L. .14. Texas (Belfrage). 



In appearance ver}^ like Agrilus putillus. 



Braciiys. 



B. lugubris, Lee, is the true B. tessellaia, Fab. ; B. Isevicauda is 

 considered a variety of B. ovafa ; Melshemier's name serosa must 

 be restored to B. (einninaus, J Lap. The Fabrician species being 

 S. American. 



