NORTH AMERICAN BTJPRESTID BEETLES 207 



Redescribed from the female lectotype, No. 3486, in the Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Type locality. — Southwestern Texas, no definite locality. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Material examined : 



Texas: Type series (2 females labeled "Tex."). Victoria, June 15 (J. D. 



Mitchell). Dallas. May 19 (E. S. Tucker). Austin. June 28 ( ). 



Columbus. June 3 (Hubbard and Schwarz). 



Variations. — Scarcely any variation in size, color, or markings 

 were observed in the material examined. 



Host. — Chittenden (1900) writes that E. A. Schwarz reports it 

 breeding in huisache (Acacia fame siana (Linnaeus) Willdenow), but 

 since none of the Texas specimens have rearing labels attached, this 

 record may apply either to this species or to lanituellus Fisher, as both 

 these closely allied species have been collected by Schwarz in Texas. 

 This host plant record should be verified. 



69. AGRILUS DOZIERI Fisher 



Figure 50 



Agrihift dozieri Fisher, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 20, 1918, pp. 67-68. — 

 Frost and Weiss, Canad. Ent.. vol. 52, 1920. p. 207. — Nicolay, Journ. 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 29, 1921, p. 175. — Chamberlin. Cat. Buprestidae, 

 1926, p. 59. 



Male.- — Form slightly more slender than that of bilineatws (Weber), 

 and subopaque; head dark green in front, becoming black on the 

 occiput; pronotum reddish cupreous: elytra black: beneath black, 

 with a more or less violaceous or cupreous tinge, and slightly more 

 shining than above. 



Head with the front rather narrow, and distinctly wider at top 

 than bottom, the lateral margins broadly, arcuately constricted be- 

 hind the epistoma, broadly depressed, the depression deeper and 

 strongly transverse on vertex, but not as deeply depressed as in 

 vittaticollis, and with a feeble longitudinal groove extending from 

 occiput to middle of front; surface obsoletely granulose, finely, 

 sparsely punctate, densely, irregularly rugose in front, becoming 

 longitudinally rugose on the occiput, and rather densely clothed with 

 long, recumbent, whitish hairs, except on the occiput; epistoma 

 slightly transverse between the antennae, and broadly, deeply, arcu- 

 ately emarginate in front; antennae extending beyond middle of 

 pronotum, serrate from the fourth joint, and the outer joints longer 

 than wide; eyes large, rather broadly oblong, and about equally 

 rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, wider at apex than base, and 

 widest near apex; sides obliquely or feebly, arcuately narrowed from 



