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Aphelinus speciosissimus Girault. 



From eggs of Xiphidium (?), Richmond, Indiana, W. J. 

 Phillips, 1906. 



Aphelinus subapterus new species. 



$ . Length, 0.75 mm. ; short. Black and scaly, the tips of the tibiae, 

 tarsi and the funicle and club dull yellow. Fore wings very small, only 

 somewhat longer than wide, smoky, with a hyaline cross-stripe at the 

 bend of the submarginal vein, naked, the marginal vein bearing three 

 long bristles, the apex of the wing's blade squarely truncate. Second 

 tooth of mandible truncate. Funicles 1-2 subequal, each a half wider 

 than long, 3. a half longer than wide, longer than the preceding two 

 joints taken together but not half the length of the club, subequal to 

 the pedicel. Scape long and slender. Strigil present. With the generic- 

 characters except the wings. 



Described from three males labelled Baocharls marlattl Ash- 

 mead, Riley County, Kansas, May (Marlatt). 



Type : Catalogue No. 20226, United States National Mu- 

 seum, two of the specimens in fragments on a slide, a third on 

 a tag. 



New Species of Buprestidae (Col.) from the 

 Pacific States, 



With Notes Concerning a Few Others. 



By EDWIN C. VAN DYKE, University of California, Berkeley, 



California. 



Of the four insects described below, three have been known 

 to me for a long time, while the fourth was found among 

 a series of Buprestidae collected by Mr. W. J. Chamberlin, in 

 Oregon. The Anthaxia bears no close relationship to any of 

 our other Pacific species, but superficially resembles certain 

 forms of A. qncrcata Fab., and may have been what Dr. Horn 

 referred to when he spoke of specimens of that being found 

 iii California. 1 It, however, differs entirely as regards its 

 tarsal claws from that species. 



The first two species of Chrysobothris described are an ad- 

 dition to that large series of species which superficially closely 



1 Revision of the species of some genera of Buprestidae, by George 

 H. Horn, M.D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. x (1882), p. in. 



