320 BULLETIN 145, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



DISTRIBUTION 



Material examined : 



Alabama: Langdale (H. H. Smith). 



Colorado: Littleton, June 22, 1911 (C. A. Frost). 



Iowa: Iowa City, June 15, 1911 (Stoner). Lake Okoboji, July (L. L. 

 Buchanan). Spirit Lake, June, 1896 ( ). 



Kansas: Baldwin (J. C. Bridwell). Salina, and Sheridan County ( ). 



Minnesota: Ramsey County, July 11, 1923 (MacAndrews). Scott County, 

 June 6 ( ). 



Nebraska: West Point, June 1888 (L. Bruner). Sand Hills, July ( ). 



Pennsylvania: Hummelstown, June 12 (J. N. Knull). 



South Dakota : No definite locality. 



Texas: Kerrville, April 10, 1907 (F. C. Pratt). Dallas, May 9, 1896 (F. C. 

 Bishopp). Austin, April 9, 1907 (R. A. Cushman). It has been recorded 

 in the literature from Indiana, New Jersey, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, but 

 no examples have been seen by the writer from these localities. It has 

 also been recorded from Arizona from specimens identified by Doctor 

 Horn as this species. These specimens which were collected in the Pinal 

 Mountains by H. F. Wickham have been examined by the writer and are 

 chiricahuae Fisher. 



Variations. — Very little variation was noted except in size and 

 color. The pronotum is bronzy green to reddish cupreous, usually 

 with the median part more or less purplish, and sometimes the 

 elytra are strongly aeneous. Length, 3.25 to 4.75 millimeters. 



Host. — The larval habits are unknown, but the adults have been 

 collected in Nebraska by Bruner, and in Texas by Bishopp on false 

 indigo {Amorpha fruticosa Linnaeus.) 



The general aspect of this species is that of a diminutive ruficollis 

 Fabricius, but it can always be separated from that species by the 

 serration of the antennae beginning with the fifth joint. It is 

 closely allied to egenus Gory and celti Knull, and there may be some 

 difficulty in separating the bronzy green females, but the males can 

 be readily separated from those of egenus and celti by the genitalia. 

 The name parvus has been suggested for this species by Saunders 

 (1871) , but there seems to be no valid reason for this change. Cham- 

 berlin (1926) places pusillus as a variety of otiosus Say, but this is 

 incorrect, as pusillus is a valid species and does not fall in the same 

 group with otiosus. 



113. AGRILUS ELEANORAE, new species 



Figure 88 



Male. — Form small, robust, strongly flattened above, and moder- 

 ately shining; head bronzy green in front, and becoming brownish 

 cupreous on the occiput; pronotum and elytra uniformly brownish 

 cupreous; beneath similar in color to above but more shining. 



Head with the front rather broad, feebly convex, about equal in 

 width at top and bottom the sides strongly, broadly constricted 



