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with an appressed blackened spine; penis-guard conspicuously narrowed 
at the apex. 
Habitat: Western United States. 
Holotype, &, Monterey County, California, July 22, 1896. 
Paratype, &, Juliaetta, Idaho, May 3, 1904. Type in the 
collection of the author. 
This new species seems to be about as common as the only 
other western species of the genus, Ptychoptera lenis O. S. 
The two species are closely related but may be separated by 
the following key: 
Size larger (male, wing over 11 mm.); abdominal tergites black, including 
the hypopygium; lobes of the ninth tergite of the male hypopygium 
with a subapical black appressed spine on the ventral] surface. 
P. lenis O. S. 
Size small (male, wing under 9 mm.); abdomen with the sides of the ter- 
gites and the hypopygium reddish; lobes of the ninth tergite of the 
male hypopygium with a blunt reddish ventral lobe some distance 
before the tip. P. minor n. sp. 
Notes on Buprestidae with Descriptions of New 
Species (Coleop.). 
By Joser N. KNuLL, Bureau of Plant Industry, Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania. 
The tollowing is a list of host-plants and emergence records 
of Buprestidae collected by the author and reared at Hum. 
melstown, or Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In all cases, the 
material was caged under out-of-door conditions. 
Chalcophorella campestris Say. At Harrisburg, Pa., ninety living 
adults were chopped from their pupal cells in a dead beech (Fagus ameri- 
cana) about 14 inches in diameter on March 13, by Mr. H. B. Kirk and 
the author. The adults, which appear in the spring, transform in the 
fall and pass the winter in the pupal cells. The species was also reared 
from dead willow (Salix nigra) and buttonwood (Platanus occidentalis). 
Buprestis rufipes Fab. Pupae of this beetle were observed in the 
heart-wood of a dead American elm (Ulmus americana) at Hummelstown, 
Pa., June 28, and on July 10 the adults were mature. Adults were also 
reared July 5 from the wood of a dead sour gum (Nyssa sylvatica) col- 
lected at Hummelstown, Pa. Beetles were also reared from dead beech 
(Fagus americana) and hickory. 
