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Agrilus granulatus Say. 



One specimen on black alder. 



Agrilus politus Say. 

 June, July, abundant on willow. 



Agrilus egenus Gory. 



Mid-April to mid-May, on foliage of dog-wood. 



Taphrocerus gracilis Say. 



Mid-May, not common on low oak bush. 



Brachys ovata Web. 



March to late summer, on leaves of oak. Exceedingly abund- 

 ant. Lives in leaves of oak, splitting the leaf as it feeds, pu- 

 pates in leaf in February and becomes imago in leaf in early 

 March. 

 Brachys aerosa Melsh. 



May, June, on oak. Rare. 

 Pachyscelus laevigatus Say. 



June, not uncommon on a low thin-leaved milky weed. 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES. 

 Melanophila Carolina Blanchard MS., n. sp. 



As the late Mr. Blanchard left this manuscript name unpub- 

 lished, I will attempt a description which must not interfere 

 with Blanchard's authorship. 



Length 6.3 mm., width 2.5 mm.; sub-cylindrical; face crinkly-punc- 

 tate ; thorax densely but not coarsely punctulate. unsculptured, very 

 rotund at sides to near basic third where from beneath it slopes in an 

 incurved edge to point of broad basic spur, or spear-point ; upper aspect, 

 sides rounding to basic third whence it is parallel to near point of 

 spur ; elytra densely and coarsely punctulate, broadly and deeply in- 

 dented at shoulder, plump and smoothly rounding to below mid-costae, 

 sides nearly parallel to middle whence after a slight widening they 

 slope to the rounded tips ; color, bright metallic, beneath cupreous run- 

 ning to dark green on ventral segments, above, head and thorax red- 

 dish cupreous, elytra olive, one specimen steel blue; male claspers with 

 four or five fine hairs curving inwardly and backwardly. 



Southern Pines, North Carolina. Four specimens as above 

 stated; one in the Blanchard collection, one with Col. Wirt 

 Robinson, one is owned by Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, the fourth is 

 in the cabinet of the author. 



