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This is the best known species of Agrilus found in North America, 

 and is commonly known as the " raspberry gouty gall beetle " and the 

 "red-necked raspberry cane borer." Herbst's (1801) figure is mis- 

 leading, if indeed it can be intended for this species at all. Harris 

 (1829) placed this species in his new subgenus Teres. 



7. AGRILUS LATERALIS (Say) 



• Figure 5 



Buprestis lateralis Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1823, 

 p. 159. 



Agrilus lateralis Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., vol. 6, 1836, 

 p. 162. — LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., vol. 11, 1859, 

 p. 250; Say's Writings, vol. 2 (Bailliere Bros., ed. 1859; Cassino and 

 Co., ed. 1883), pp. 103, 596.— Thomas, 6th Kept. 111. State Entomol., 

 1877, p. 114 (probably wrong identification). — Horn, Trans. Ainer. Ent. 

 Soc, vol. 18, 1891, pp. 290-291.— Smith, 27th Ann. Kept. N. J. State 

 Board Agric for 1899 (1900), suppl. p. 256. — Chittenden, U. S. Dept. 

 Agric Div. Ent., Bull? 22, new ser., 1900, p. 68. — Wickham, Bull. Lab. 

 Nat. Hist., State Univ. Iowa, vol. 5, no. 3, 1902, p. 269 (probably wrong 

 identification). — Schaeffeb, Brooklyn Inst. Mus., Sci. Bull., vol. 1, 

 no. 7, 1905, p. 150. — Fall and Cockekell, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 

 33, 1907, p. 180 (identification?). — Blatchley, Coleoptera of Indiana, 

 1910, p. 798.— Smith, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Museum for 1909 (1910), 

 p. 294.— Gibson, 43rd Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc Ontario for 1912 (1913), 

 p. 126 (separate, page 14). — Frost, Canad. Ent., vol. 47, 1915, p. 144. — 

 Johnson, Ent. News, vol. 26, 1915, p. 312. — Somes, Mo. State Fruit 

 Exp. Sta., Bull. 25, 1915, p. 14 (probably wrong identification.) — 

 Nicola y, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol 14, 1919, p. 19. — Frost and 

 Weiss, Canad. Ent., vol. 52, 1920, p. 205.— Frost, Canad. Ent., vol. 52, 

 1920, p. 249.— Britton, Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, Bull. 

 31, 1920, p. 244. — Mutchler and Weiss, N. J. Dept. Agric, Bureau of 

 Statistics and Inspection, Circ 48, 1922, p. 9.— Fisher, Proc Ent. Soc 

 Wash., vol. 24, 1922, pp. 124-125.— K null, Canad. Ent., vol. 54, 1922, 

 p. 84. — Blatchley, Canad. Ent., vol. 55, 1923, p. 18. — Knull, Ohio State 

 Univ. Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 1925, p. 39. — Chamberlin, Cat. Buprestidae, 

 1926, p. 68 (in part). 



Agrilus sayi Saunders, Cat. Buprestidarum, 1871, no. 393, p. 126 (name 

 unnecessary as lateralis is not preoccupied). 



Male. — Form of ruficolUs, rather strongly shining, head, pronotum 

 and scutellum aeneo-cupreous, and the elytra piceous; beneath 

 aeneous, with a strong cupreous reflection. 



Head with the front wide, nearly flat, slightly wider at top than 

 at bottom, the lateral margins feebly, obliquely expanded from but- 

 ton to top, and with a broad, longitudinal depression extending from 

 the occiput to epistoma, the depression becoming obsolete near the 

 epistoma; surface feebly, coarsely rugose, rather densely, coarsely 

 punctate, and very sparsely clothed with short, whitish hairs; epis- 

 toma rather narrow between the antennae, and broadly, feebly, 



