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until the elytra become one-third wider than at base; deeply strongly 

 punctate in the stria?; interspaces strongly elevated (less strongly so in 

 female according to Petri, but I can see no difference); scales gray or" 

 brown, hairs brown and never occurring in single rows on the interspaces, 

 rather short and depressed. Scales cleft ' to the base, processes not 

 elongate. 



Venter sparsely clothed with scales and hairs, the former often 

 metallic and not so deeply cleft as on dorsum, gray or gray-green; 

 mesosternal process between the middle coxae elevated, narrowly triangu- 

 lar at the point ; intercoxal process of first abdominal segment broad and 

 subtruncate at tip, last abdominal segment longer than two previous 

 ones united, a distinct depression on the first segment in the median line 

 that extends onto the metasternum (at least in the male, the Greenland 

 specimen has this portion hidden). 



Legs rather short, stout, femora in male nearly clavate. anterior 

 tibia? of male slightly curved, hind tibia? with a curved spine (said by 

 Petri to be long) inside at the tip, crown of tibial spines short, stout, 

 yellow. All the legs sparsely clothed with gray or silvery gray hairs. 

 The mucronate process on hind tibia? appears to be widened at the tip 

 and slightly cmarginate. 



One of the specimens seen shows a tendency to be tesselated on the 

 alternate interspaces beginning with the sutural one, the macula? being 

 brown on a gray background, but they are very indistinct. 



Larvae: Lucas von Heyden (1677) in his Kafcr Nassau states that 

 his father, C. H. von Heyden, took the larva? of this species when sweep- 

 ing for insects in a meadow back of Offenbach (Germany) in May, near 

 the end of the month; they were green with a white dorsal median line 

 and in June changed to pupae without spinning a cocoon! "Okne" is 

 quoted either to emphasize the fact or to note that it was so in the notes 

 of his father. He quotes then the description of the larva? of Phy. 

 plantaginis given by DeGeer, stating that the larva? of Phy. elongates is 

 much like this description. However plantaginis spins a cocoon as 

 both DeGeer and Heyden note and DeGeer's description would fit 

 almost any green Phytonomus larva. 



Distribution: The species was described by Paykull from 

 Sweden as Cure, elongatus. Schrank's specimens of diversipunc- 

 tatus were from "Gem." Capiomont reports the species from 

 North and Middle Europe, X. France, Belgium and England. 

 Petri from E. Prussia and various points in Germany, Austria 

 and Hungary. 



The species is here included because of a single specimen 

 received by Leconte from Chr. Drewsen from Greenland and 

 now in the collection of Mus. Comp. Zool. at Cambridge, Mass. 

 This one specimen is identical with European specimens I 

 have in my collection. 



