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Tarsal claws similar on all feet, cleft near the middle, the teeth nearly 

 equal in length, the inner ones turned inward, and their apices 

 touching. 



Length, 12 mm. ; width, 3.25 mm. 



Male. — Unknown. 



.Redescribed from a female in the United States National Museum 

 from Tepic, Mexico. 



Type locality. — Tupataro, State of Guanajuato, Mexico. Present 

 location of type unknown to the writer. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Arizona : Schaeft'er Canon, Baboquivari Mountains, September 18-19, 1924, at 



an elevation of 5,150 to 5,500 feet (Rhen and Hebard). 

 Mexico : Tupataro, State of Guanajuato : Tepic, Territory of Tepic. 



Variations. — No variation worthy of note was observed in the seven 

 specimens examined, except in size, which varies from 10 to 12 milli- 

 meters in length. The specimens from Arizona do not differ in any 

 way from the specimen from Tepic, Mexico, and are probably all 

 females, unless the males of this species have no distinct external 

 sexual characters, as none of the Arizona specimens were dissected. 



Host. — Unknown. 



12. AGRILUS FUSCIPENNIS Gory 



Figure 9 



Agrilus fuscipennis Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., ed. 2, 1833, p. 82; ed. 3, 1837, 

 p. 93 (no description). — Goby, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1841, pp. 

 238-239, pi. 39, fig. 230.— LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 9, 

 1857, p. 9; Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 11, new ser., 1859, p. 242 — 

 Crotch, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 25, 1873, p. 92. — Horn, Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 18, 1891, p. 289. — Kerremans, Mem. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg., no. 1, 1892, p. 258.— Leng, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 18, 1910, 

 pp. 76, 81 ; Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 19, 1911, p. 211 ; Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 20, 1912, p. 298.— Chamberlin, Cat. Buprestidae, 192G, 

 p. 63. 



Female. — Form large, elongate, robust, and opaque; head and 

 pronotum cupreous, with a strong reddish purple tinge; scutellum 

 and elytra black; beneath more shining than above, bronzy black, 

 the anterior parts more olivaceous, and the sides of the sterna 

 strongly purplish. 



Head with the front wide, slightly wider at top than at bottom, 

 deeply concave, the concavity extending to lateral margins and 

 from epistoma to occiput, with a narrow, longitudinal groove in bot- 

 tom of the concavity, the lateral margins obliquely expanded from 

 bottom to top, and with a narrow, transverse depression behind the 

 epistoma, the depression more deeply depressed behind the antennal 



