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After the conclusion of the flight of the Buprestidae in 1933, the colony of 

 Cerceris fumipennis under observation at Clifton, Virginia, stored their 

 nests with adult beetles of the genus Chlamisus, Chrysomelid beetels resembUng 

 Buprestidae only in their hard integuments and in their metalic luster. 



Other observers have found C. fumipennis Say collecting Bupresti- 

 dae much later in the fall. No other observers have recorded the 

 species collecting anything but Buprestidae. 



The following species of Buprestidae have been recorded or other- 

 wise indicated as prey of C. fumipevnis Say: Acmeodera pulchella 

 (Herbst) (Scullen, from Iowa), Actenodes acornis (Say) (Cartright, 

 from S.C.), Agrilus arcuatus (Say) (Cartright, from S.C.), A. 

 bilineatus (Weber) (Cartright, from S.C), A. abjectm Horn (Rau, 

 from Kansas), A. ruficollis (Fabricius), Buprestis consularis Gory, 

 B. fasciata Fabricius, (Cartright, from S.C), B. lineata Fabricius 

 (Cartright, from S.C), B. macidipennis Gory (Cartright, from 

 S.C), B. rufipes (OHver) (Cartright, from S.C), B. striata Fabricius 

 (Cartright, from S.C), Chrysobothris azurea LeConte (Evans, from 

 Ark.), C. blancliardi Horn (Cartright, from S.C), C. dentipes (Ger- 

 mer) (Cartright, from S.C), C. femorata (Ohver) (Bridwell, from 

 Kansas; Cartright, from S.C; Scullen, from Iowa), C. floricola 

 Gory (Cartright, from S.C), C. lesueuri Castelnau (Cartright, 

 from S.C), C. purpureovittata Horn (Evans, from Ark.), C. quadri- 

 impressa Castelnau (Peckham, from Wis.), C. sexsignata (Say) (Cart- 

 right, from S.C; Scullen, from Iowa), C. verdigripennis Frost (Cart- 

 right, from S.C), Cinyra gracUipes (Melsheimer) (Evans, from Ark.), 

 Conotrachelus sp., (Hartman, from Tex.), Dicerca caudata LeConte 

 (Evans, from Ind.), D. americana (Herbst) (Cartright, from S.C), D. 

 nuttalli var. consularis Gory (Cartright, from S.C), D. divaricata (Say) 

 (ScuUen, from Iowa; Evans, from Ark), D. lurida Fabricius (Scullen, 

 from Iowa; Krombein, from N.C; Cartright, from S.C), D. ob- 

 scura (Fabricius) (Bridwell, from Kansas), D. punctulata (Schonherr) 

 (Cartright, from S.C; Grossbeck, from Long Island, N.Y.; Robinson, 

 from Va.), D. spreta (Gory), D. tuberculata (Castelnau) (Cartright, 

 from S.C). 



Plant record. — Ammi majus (Texas), Ampelopsis arbor ea (Texas), 

 Ceanothus sp. (North Carolina), C. americana (Massachusetts), C. 

 canadensis (Massachusetts), Chinquapin sp. (Florida), Circuta 

 maculata (Ohio), Cyrilla racemiflora (Florida), Daucus carota (Florida, 

 Ohio), Erigeron quercijloris (Florida), hydrangia (North Carolina), 

 Melilotus alba (Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Texas), Monarda citrio- 

 dera (Texas, New Jersey), tea (Florida), Polygonum hydropiperoides 

 (Florida), Polytaenia nuttallii (Ohio), Ptillmaius capillaceum (Florida), 

 Quercus virginiana (North Carolina), Rhus copallinum (North Caro- 

 lina), Salix sp. (Texas), Solidago sp. (North Carolina), Spiraea telici- 



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