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FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



6. C088US reticulatna Lintner. 



This moth was described by Mr. J. A. Lintuer, from a single female 

 iu the collectiou of Mr. Neumogen, collected in Texas, on the Kio Grande. 

 Mrs. Slossou has observed it riddling live oaks in Florida. 



Allied to C. robiniw iu shape of wings and markings, having the stronger scales and 

 reticulated ornamentation of that species, in which it differs from the minute and 

 sparse scales and transverse lines of C. querciperda and C. centerensis. 



Primaries reticulated with black on a pale ash ground, the wings lighter than in C. 

 robiniw, from the absence of the conspicuous intranervular black spots and streaks 

 which characterize that species, and are well represented in fig. 205, p. 413, of Harris' 

 Insects Injurious to Vegetation. In this species, only between the internal, submedian 

 and 1st median venule (veins la, 16, and 2), at the outer third of the wings, do the 

 reticulations coalesce so as almost to form spots. In the terminal and subterminal por- 

 tions of the wing, the small ash spots (sometimes ocellated with a black dot or line) 

 for the greater part rest upon the veins; between 2 and 5, there are other spots in- 

 termediate to these venular ones; elsewhere, with a few exceptions, the spots are 

 venular, forming two intranervular rows. The costal region is pale ash, traversed by- 

 black lines rather than reticulated. The median portion of the wing is imperfectly 

 reticulated. The terminal margin and the unicolorous fringe are conspicuously 

 marked with a black spot on each vein. 



Secondaries thinly clothed with fuscous hairs, permitting the reticulations of the 

 lower surface to be seen in transparency, except between the margin and costal nerve, 

 where it is seated in pale ash, as the primaries. Terminal margin and the pale fringe, 

 black spotted as the primaries. — (Lintner, Ent. Contributions, iv, 130, 1878.) 



7. The toothed- legged buprestis. 



Chrysobothris dentipes Germar. 



Order Coleoptera: Family Buprestid^. 



Fig. 15.— Chrysobothris dentipes: a, head, front view; b, last male ventral segment; c.'last female 

 ventral segment; d, first leg of male. After Horn. B. The same, after Smith. 



Eating a slender, winding, broad, shallow burrow between the bark and sap-wood 

 of newly felled oak trees ; a white, footless grub, with the fore part of the body enor- 

 mously large, circular, and flattened, inclosing the small head in front. 



This singularly shaped borer is often found under the bark of newly 

 felled oaks, or those which have been prostrate for a longer time. We 

 have found it in its mine under the bark of the red oak at Salem, Mass., 

 early in May, in company with more numerous individuals of Magdalu 

 olyra. 



