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and the teeth nearly equal in length; middle and posterior claws 

 cleft near the middle, the inner tooth broad, much shorter than the 

 outer one, and not turned inward. 



Length, 4.5 mm. ; width, 1.25 mm. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the head uniformly dark 

 reddish brown, sometimes with a feeble greenish reflection; pro- 

 sternum without erect hairs at middle; tibiae unarmed at apex, and 

 the tarsal claws similar on all feet, cleft near the middle, the inner 

 tooth broad, shorter than outer one, and not. turned inward. 



Redescribed from the male cotype Cat. No. 254, in the Museum 

 of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Type locality. — Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Tex. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Material examined : 



Texas: Brownsville (Esperanza Ranch), June 14- July 1; Tolusa, May (Chas. 

 Schaeffer). Brownsville (Los Borregos), May 22-24, 1904 (H. S. Barber). 



Variations. — The specimens examined show very little variation, 

 except in size, and occasionally the pubescent markings are more or 

 less abraded. Length 3.75 to 5 millimeters. 



Host. — Schaeffer collected the adults of this species on the branches 

 of Texas ebony (Acacia) PitJiecolobium fexicaule (Bentham) Coul- 

 ter, but so far the species has not been reared. 



This species resembles very closely lecontei Saunders, but can be 

 readily separated from that species by having the tips of the elytra 

 emarginate. 



102. AGRILUS LECONTEI Saunders 



Figure 78 



Agriius subfaseiatus LeConte, Trans. Anier. Philos. Soc., vol. 11, new ser., 

 1859, pp. 245-246 (name preoccupied ) . — Crotch, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., vol. 25, 1873, p. 93. 



Agrilus lecontei Saunders, Cat. Buprestidarum. 1871, p. 117, no. 110 (new 

 name for subfasciatus) . — Lugger, Psyche, vol. 4, 1884, p. 203. — Horn, 

 Trans. Arner. Ent. Soc, vol. 18, 1891, pp. 324-325, pi. 8, figs. 5, 17.— 

 Stromberg, Canad. Ent., vol. 26, 1894, p. 36. — Hamilton, Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 22, 1895. p. 364.— Smith, 27th Ann. Kept. N. J. State 

 Board Agric for 1899 (1900), suppl. p. 25S — Chittenden, U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, Div. Ent., Bull. 22, new ser., 1900, p. 68.— Ulke, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 25, no. 1275, 1902, p. 21.— Schaeffer, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 

 vol. 12, 1904, p. 211.— Felt, N. Y. State Mus., Mem. 8, vol. 2, 1906, p. 

 736. — Blatchley, Coleoptera of Indiana, 1910, p. 804, figs. 307a-&, 

 311c— Smith, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus. for 1909 (1910), p. 295.— 

 Knull, Ent. News, vol. 31, 1920, p. 11. — Frost and Weiss, Canad. Ent., 

 vol. 52, 1920, p. 222.— Boving and Champlain, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 57, 1920, p. 636.— Knull, Canad. Ent., vol. 54, 1922, p. 86.— 



