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Only three specimens of this quite distinct species were taken 

 by the writer. They were taken from a single burrow in the 

 smaller limbs of red spruce near Brunswick, Maine, June 29, 1919. 

 The brood burrow was in a limb about one-half inch in diameter 

 at the base of a smaller twig. Two longitudinal egg galleries, 

 each slightly less than an inch in diameter extend in opposite 

 directions. In one 15 eggs had been deposited, each in a side 

 niche while in the other 13 had been laid. Some of these had 

 hatched. This species was found in the same sort of material as 

 P. biovalis n. sp. 



The species is named in honor of Prof. J. M. Briscoe, Professor 

 of Forestry in the University of Maine. 



Pityophthorus shepardi n. sp. 



Description of the female: Keddish brown, length 1.75 mm.; 

 2.7 times as long as wide. 



Front flattened on an area of more than a semi-circle, impressed 

 on its periphery, densely and finely punctured throughout, densely 

 pubscent with fine hairs of moderate length ; remainder of the 

 front shining, finely and sparsely punctured; epistomal margin 

 entire, no conspicuous marginal hairs. Antennal club conspicu- 

 ously hairy, longer than funicle, about one-fourth longer than 

 Made, first suture nearly straight, second and third procurved. 

 Eyes finely granulate, emargination about as wide as deep. 



Fronotum 1.07 times as long as wide, oddest posteriorly, sides 

 sub-parallel for about half their length, then slightly constricted 

 and rather narrowly rounded in front ; anterior margin weakly 

 serrate ; anterior area moderately asperate ; summit not promi- 

 nent ; posterior area wdth distinct impunctate median line ; re- 

 mainder of disc and sides rather finely, not densely punctured ; 

 posterior marginal line fine but distinct. 



Elytra slightly Avider than pronotum, widest at about the middle, 

 1.7 times as long as Avide; sides slightly arcuate to level of 

 declivital origin, then CA^enly, narrowly rounded to the suture 

 where they meet at an angle. Striae not impressed except sutural 

 striae; strial punctures fine, fairly deep near base and at the 

 sides but becoming progressively shallower and finer posteriorly, 

 those of the first three striae obsolescent on the disc behind ; inter- 

 strial punctures very sparse ;• disc of elytra glistening, glabrous ; 

 sides sparsely pubescent with short, stiff hairs. Declivity shal- 

 lowly sulcate Avith the sulcus shining ; suture moderately Avide and 

 elcA'ated, \"ery feebly granulate ; lateral elcA^ations inconspicuous, 

 each with a sparse roAv of A'ery small granules on the third inter- 

 space, Avith one or tAvo similar granules lateral to it, each bearing 

 an inconspicuous, short, stiff hair. 



Male of about the same general proportions as the female; front 

 rather coarsely, deeply, somcAvhate roughly punctured, with faint 

 traces of a median carina; shining, glabrous or nearly so; epis- 

 tomal margin entire Avith a scant border of short, stiff, yelloAV hairs; 



