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is obtusely rounded. Tibiae slightly flattened, and unarmed at apex. 

 Posterior tarsi slightly shorter than tibiae, and the first joint about 

 as long as the following three joints united. 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. 



Male. — Differs from the female in being more slender, front of head 

 slightly more pubescent, prosternum rather densely clothed with long, 

 erect, whitish hairs, and all of the tibiae armed with a short tooth on 

 inner margin at apex. 



Length, 12-13 mm. ; width, 3.25-4 mm. 



Redescribed from a female in the United States National Mu- 

 seum, collected at Tryon, N. C, by W. F. Fiske. 



Type locality. — " North America." Present location of type un- 

 known to writer. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Georgia : Clayton and Ramsons Mill, in the northern part at an altitude of 



2,000 feet, July, 1910 (Leng). 

 Kentucky: No definite locality (Dury). 

 Mississippi: Longview, June 7, 1916 (J. H. Oswalt). Agricultural College, 



May, 1919 (B. A. Donaldson), March 26 (W. J. Edens). 

 North Carolina: Tryon, June 11. 1903 (Fiske). Ashville, reared (R. A. 



St. George). 

 Ohio: No definite locality (Knull collection). 



South Carolina: Clemson College, reared January. 1926 (F. Sherman). 

 Tennessee: No definite locality (Horn, Dury). 

 Texas: No definite locality (Horn). 



Variations. — Scarcely any variation was observed in the specimens 

 examined. 



Host. — This species has been reared from Persimmon (Diospyros 

 virginiana Linnaeus) by R. A. St. George, and also from the same 

 host by students at Clemson College. S. C. Chamberlin (1926) 

 records Sourwood {Oxydendrum arboreurn, (Linnaeus) de Candolle) 

 as the host of this species, but this record may be based on a specimen 

 in the United States National Museum, which was only collected on 

 that tree, and may not be a host for the larvae. 



13. AGRILUS TOWNSENDI Fall 



Ayrilus townsendi Fall. Trans. Amer. Bnt. Soc, vol. 33, 1907. pp. 234- 

 235. — Fall and Cockerell. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 33. 1907, p. 

 181. — Frost and Weiss. Canad. Bnt., vol. 52, 1920. p. 207. — Champlain 

 and Knitll, Ent. News. vol. 34. 1923. p. 274. — Chamuerlix. Ca Bu- 

 prestidae, 1926. p. 84. 



Female. — Form moderately robust, strongly arcuately arched in 

 profile, feebly flattened above, and rather strongly shining; head and 

 pronotum aeneo-cupreous; elytra dark brown, with a distinct aeneous 



