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30. AGRILUS PULCHELLUS Bland 

 Figure 23 



Agrllus pulchellus Bland, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 4, 1865, p. 382. — 

 Crotch, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. 25, 1873, pp. 93-94— LeConte, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. 25, 1873, p. 333.— Horn, Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 18, 1891, pp. 312-313; Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 

 ser. 2, 1894, pp. 378-379.— 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. — Schaeffer, Brooklyn Inst. Mus., 

 Sci. Bull. vol. 1, no. 7, 1905, p. 150. — Fall and Cockerell, Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 33, 1907, p. 181.— Frost and Weiss, Canad. Ent., vol. 52, 

 1920, p. 210. 



Engyaulus pulchellus (Bland) Waterhouse, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt, 

 vol. 3, pt. 1, 1889, p. 50, pi. 4, fig. 9.— Good, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 18, 

 1925, p. 271, pi. 11, fig. 39.— Chamberlin, Cat. Buprestidae, 1926, 

 p. 201. 



Agrilus pinalicus Wickham, Canad. Ent., vol. 35, 1903, pp. 69-70 (new 

 synonymy). — Fall and Cockerell, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 33, 1907, 

 p. 180. — Chamberlin, Cat. Buprestidae, 1926, p. 76. 



Female. — Form subcylindrical, moderately robust, slightly flat- 

 tened above, and rather strongly shining; head greenish blue, with 

 a feeble violaceous tinge in front; pronotum blue, with a feeble 

 violaceous reflection; elytra blue along sutural margins, narrowly 

 margined golden green internally, and with the lateral two-thirds 

 reddish cupreous ; beneath black, and the legs dark green. 



Head with the front narrow, strongly declivous anteriorly, and 

 vaguely wider at top than at bottom, the lateral margins feebly 

 expanded from bottom to top, and with a broad, very deep, median 

 depression, almost bilobed, extending from vertex to epistoma ; sur- 

 face coarsely, densely, irregularly rugose, densely, coarsely punctate 

 between the rugae, and sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, whit- 

 ish pubescence in the depression; epistoma very narrow between the 

 antennae, and very broadly, deeply, arcuately emarginate in front; 

 antennae nearly contiguous at base, robust, extending slightly beyond 

 anterior margin of pronotum, serrate from the fourth joint, and the 

 outer joints distinctly wider than long; eyes large, broadly oblong, 

 and equally rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, about equal in width at base 

 and apex, and widest near middle; sides feebly, arcuately rounded 

 from apical angles to behind middle, then more obliquely narrowed 

 to the posterior angles, which are rectangular; when viewed from 

 the side the marginal carina is feebly sinuate, the submarginal 

 carina nearly straight, and the two carinae widely separated ante- 

 riorly ; anterior margin feebly sinuate, with the median lobe vaguely 

 rounded; base transversely truncate to middle of each elytron, then 

 broadly rounded to the scutellum, in front of which it is subtruncate ; 



