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Hosts: Larva mine the leaves of black gum (Nyssa sylvatica), black 

 haw (Crataegus douglasii), milk weed, bush clover (Lespedeza vir- 

 ginica), and (L. bicolor), Tick tree foil (Meibomia obtusa) , and (M. 

 viridiflora) , Desviodium. canadense. 



OCULATUS Schaeffer, a Variety of SCHWARZI Kerr. 



OVATUS Say, See LAEVIGATUS Say 



POLITUS Kerremans, See LAEVIGATUS Say 



PUNCTATA Gory, See LAEVIGATUS Say 



371. PURPUREUS Say (9564) 



1836 Metonius purpureus Say p. 1902 Ulke p. 22, 47. 



164. 1903 Kerremans p. 319. 



1837 Dejean p. 94. 1903 americana Kerremans p. 319. 

 1841 Brachys americanus Gory p. 1906 Felt p. 715. 



346 pi. 58 fig. 343. 1907 Fall-Cockerell p. 181. 



1857 Metonius Lacordaire p. 87. 1909 Smith p. 296. 



1859 Leconte p. 253. 1909 Wickham p. 23. 



1874 LeBaron p. 96. 1915 Johnson p. 312. 



1878 Hubbard-Schwarz p. 656. 1919 Nicolay p. 20. 



1878 Schwarz p. 364. 1920 Britton p. 245. 



1883 Leconte p. 599. 1921 Nicolay p. 175. 



1889 Blanchard p. 32. 1922 Knull p. 86. 



1892 Kerremans p. 298. 1925 Good p. 272 fig. 30. 



1898 Cockerell p. 152. 



Type locality: Posey County, Indiana. 



Distribution : : New England to Iowa, New Mexico and Texas. 



Massachusetts:: Framingham VI (14). 



New York: Queens, L. I. (Nicolay). 



New Jersey: Greenwood Lake V (4); Orange Mts. V-30 (8). 



Pennsylvania: Glenolden V-25 (8) ; Wawa V-25 (Daecke). 



Tenneessee: Elmwood (9); Nashville VIII (9). 



Ohio: Cincinnati VII-9, IX-5 (11). 



Illinois: Palas Park V-26 (9); Riverside VI-29 (c) ; Glen weir V-26 

 (c). 



Iowa: Iowa City (W) ; Waterloo (W). 



Michigan: Detroit (10). 



Texas: (17). 



New Mexico: (24). 



Host: Feeds on leaves of Geranium (Geranium maculatum). Taken 

 on Rhas tox (14). 



