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longer than the head ; pedicel as long as the two following joints united ; last 

 joint about as long as the two preceding united, a little over twice as long as 

 wide, pointed at tip; thorax in the middle as wide as the head, narrowed 

 anteriorly and more or less truncate posteriorly; pronotum as long as the 

 propodeum, moderately convex, finely shagreened, longer than the length of 

 the mesonotum and scutellum combined ; mesonotum a little over twice as 

 wide as long, nearly flat, shagreened; scutellum nearly flat, shagreened, with 

 a curved cross-furrow at its base; propodeum shagreened, flat above, sharp 

 laterally and angulate on each side before the apex; nearly perpendicularly 

 declivous behind and with a longitudinal median carina which extends to, 

 but not upon, the posterior face; anterior face of propodeum quadrate, pos- 

 terior face a little wider than high; wings hyaline; prostigma nearly twice 

 as wide as the parastigma; abdomen depressed, rather egg-shaped, broader 

 than and about as long as the thorax, narrowed gradually posteriorly to the 

 last segment which is triangular and much narrower than the preceding, 

 not sharply pointed posteriorly. Black; mandibles, palpi, anterior tibiae, 

 and all tarsi, yellow; antennae, except basal three-fourths of scape, middle 

 and posterior tibiae, brownish yellow; tegulae, femora, base of scape, and 

 abdomen dark brown. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Differs from the female principally in sexual 

 characters. Antennae longer than the thorax; pedicel wider than either, but 

 distinctly shorter than the two following joints together; joints beyond the 

 fourth slightly less than twice as long as wide; last joint a little over three 

 times as long as wide, slightly shorter than the two preceding united, pointed 

 apically; antennae fuscous, much darker than in the female; head and pro- 

 notum reddish brown; abdomen shorter than the thorax. 



Type locality. Wellington, Kansas. 



Type. Cat. No. 22801, U. S. N. M. 



Described from five specimens, one female and four males, bred 

 by Mr. E. G. Kelly from Calandra oryzae Linne. One paratype 

 kept by the author. One male paratype has the antennae and 

 mouthparts mounted on a slide; the rest of the head is lost. 



COLLECTING SOME LITTLE KNOWN BUPRESTIDAE 



(COLEOPT.). 



BY H. E. BURKE, Bureau of Entomology. 



Little known Buprestidae, like other "rare" insects, usually 

 can be found in numbers if the seeker knows when and where to 

 find them. Unlike many other insects, however, the majority of 

 the Buprestidae spend most of their life under the bark or in the 

 wood of trees and even where they are common it often means 



