PROCEEDINGS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



VOL. 20 APRIL, 1918 No. 4 



THREE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH MEETING MARCH 7, 1918. 



A NEW SPECIES OF AGRILUS FROM FLORIDA (GOLEOPTERA ; 



BUPRESTIDAE). 1 



, BY W. S. FISHER, 



Specialist in Forest Coleoptera. 



Arilus dozieri. n. sp. 



Form resembling bilineatus; thorax coppery, subopaque, head and elytra 

 black, opaque. Antennae passing the middle of the thorax, piceous, with 

 brassy lustre; serrate from the fourth joint. Front depressed, the occiput 

 more deeply impressed but not as deep as in vittatocollis, the median im- 

 pressed line extending only to the middle front and not reaching the base 

 of the clypeus; lateral sides concave above the base of antennae; surface 

 rather closely strigose and punctuate, clothed with short white pubescence 

 except on the occiput. Prothorax only slightly wider than long, wider 

 at apex than base; sides slightly sinuous; lateral margin sinuate; hind 

 angles with a sharply defined carina in both sexes; disc convex, the median 

 line with an anterior and posterior depression, and with an oblique de- 

 pression at the sides nearly reaching to the median line; surface rather 

 coarsely strigose, clothed with a median band of sparsely placed yellow 

 pubescence, which is often denuded, and a broad band of similar pubescence 

 adjacent to the lateral margin which extends to the hind angle. Scutel- 

 lum transversely carinate. Elytra slightly sinuate behind the humeri, 

 broadened behind the middle, nearly concealing the abdomen; apices 

 serrulate, rounded; disc slightly depressed with a very feeble trace of a 

 costa, the sutural edge slightly elevated at apical third, basal foveae 

 moderate; surface densely granulate and opaque. Body beneath black, 

 clothed with short sparsely placed white hairs; prosternal lobe broadly 

 moderately emarginate; the intercoxal process narrow, sides parallel to 

 behind the coxae, then abruptly narrowed to the apex, the surface closely 

 punctate. Abdomen finely punctate, sp;irsely along the median line, 

 more densely at the sides and on the first two segments; the ventral portion 

 of the segments densely clothed willi yellow pubescence; suture between 

 first and second segment not visible at side. Pygidiuni coarsely punctate, 

 not carinate. Claws dissimilar in the sexes. First joint of hind tarsi as 

 long as the next three joints united. 



1 Contribution from the Branch of Forest Insects, Bureau of Entomology. 



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